Buenos Aires Museums: A New Series [ENG | ESP]

Since I discovered Argentina nine months ago, I've been posting about some of the spots I liked most about the country, especially its capital. If New York is the city that never sleeps, Buenos Aires is the city that never ends. There are so many things to see and do. From having a coffee in one of the more than [ten thousand coffee shops](https://hive.blog/hive-163772/@cristiancaicedo/the-city-of-10000-cafes-or-la-ciudad-de-los-10000-cafes-eng-or-esp) that are registered, to visiting its gardens, its libraries, or the dozens of theaters that line Corrientes Avenue, Buenos Aires always has an interesting and edifying panorama to offer. >Desde que conocí Argentina hace ya nueve meses he estado publicando algunos de los rincones que más me gustaron de ese país, sobre todo de su capital. Si Nueva York es la ciudad que nunca duerme, Buenos Aires es la ciudad que nunca se acaba. Hay demasiadas cosas por ver y por hacer. Desde tomarse un café en alguna de las más de [diez mil cafeterías](https://hive.blog/hive-163772/@cristiancaicedo/the-city-of-10000-cafes-or-la-ciudad-de-los-10000-cafes-eng-or-esp) que están registradas, hasta visitar sus jardines, sus bibliotecas o las decenas de teatros que se erigen sobre la avenida Corrientes, Buenos Aires siempre tiene un panorama interesante y edificante que ofrecer. I spent a couple of weeks in Buenos Aires last December, and while I felt like I'd seen enough places, I didn't realize just how much I'd seen. It was just last night, while preparing this post, that reality hit me. Since I posted about the [Tigre Art Museum last week](https://hive.blog/hive-163772/@cristiancaicedo/an-impressive-museum-by-the-river-this-is-tigre-art-museum-engoresp), I thought I'd talk about one of the museums in Buenos Aires this week. In the last few months I had already uploaded my visits to the [Buenos Aires Museum](https://hive.blog/hive-163772/@cristiancaicedo/buenos-aires-museum-the-diary-of-a-city-eng-or-esp), the [Gardel Museum](https://hive.blog/hive-163772/@cristiancaicedo/in-the-land-of-tango-visiting-gardel-museum-eng-or-esp) and the [Anne Frank Museum](https://hive.blog/hive-163772/@cristiancaicedo/this-is-anne-franks-house-in-buenos-aires-engoresp), so, in order not to repeat content, I sat down to make a list of the museums I had visited in those two weeks and the result surprised me. Including the museums I visited in Tigre, a city in Greater Buenos Aires, and not counting those I visited in Córdoba, in just fourteen days I visited twenty museums. Twenty. That means I still have about fifteen to review. How did I do it? I don't remember walking at a frantic pace or rushing to follow a predetermined itinerary. Also, considering that I didn't go to museums on Christmas and New Year's Day, how did I manage to visit, on average, two museums a day while also getting to know gardens, cafes, different neighborhoods, bookstores, and libraries? I don't know, but with so much material about museums, I decided I had to create a series of posts to take advantage of it.  |  --- | --- >Estuve un par de semanas en Buenos Aires el pasado diciembre y si bien tenía la impresión de haber visto suficientes lugares, no era consciente de lo mucho que había visto. Fue justo anoche, preparando este post que la realidad me golpeó en la cabeza. Ya que la semana pasada subí un post sobre el [Museo de Arte de Tigre](https://hive.blog/hive-163772/@cristiancaicedo/an-impressive-museum-by-the-river-this-is-tigre-art-museum-engoresp) pensé que podía hablar esta semana de alguno de los museos de la ciudad de Buenos Aires. En los últimos meses ya había subido mis visitas al [Museo de Buenos Aires](https://hive.blog/hive-163772/@cristiancaicedo/buenos-aires-museum-the-diary-of-a-city-eng-or-esp), el [Museo Gardel](https://hive.blog/hive-163772/@cristiancaicedo/in-the-land-of-tango-visiting-gardel-museum-eng-or-esp) y el [Museo Ana Frank](https://hive.blog/hive-163772/@cristiancaicedo/this-is-anne-franks-house-in-buenos-aires-engoresp), entonces, para no repetir contenido me senté a hacer una lista de los museos que había conocido en esas dos semanas y el resultado me sorprendió. Incluyendo los museos que conocí en Tigre, ciudad de la Gran Buenos Aires y sin contar los que conocí en Córdoba, en apenas catorce días conocí veinte museos. Veinte. Eso quiere decir que aún me falta reseñar unos quince, ¿cómo hice? No recuerdo haber caminado con ritmo frenético ni ir apurado a cumplir un itinerario prefijado. Además, teniendo en cuenta que los días de Navidad y Año Nuevo no fui a museos, cómo hice para visitar, en promedio, dos museos al día mientras también conocía jardines, cafeterías, barrios diferentes, librerías y bibliotecas? No lo sé, pero ante tanto material sobre museos, decidí que tenía que crear una serie de publicaciones para aprovecharlo.  |  --- | ---  |  --- This is how _Museos de Buenos Aires_ was born, a series in which I'll be uploading content about a museum in the city once a week starting next week until the end of the year. To do so, the first thing I wanted to review was the concept of what a museum is. According to the RAE (Royal Spanish Academy of Fine Arts), a museum is a _"place where artistic, scientific, or cultural objects are kept for conservation, study, and display to the public"_ or a place _"that contains valuable or curious objects"_ ([link](https://www.rae.es/diccionario-estudiante/museo)). Under this definition, I didn't discover twenty museums in Buenos Aires, but more than double that number. >Fue así como nació _Museos de Buenos Aires_, una serie en la cual voy a subir contenido sobre un museo de la ciudad una vez a la semana desde la próxima y hasta que termine el año. Para ello, lo primero que quise revisar fue el concepto de lo que es un museo. De acuerdo a la RAE, un Museo es un _"lugar en que se guardan objetos artísticos, científicos o de interés cultural para conservarlos, estudiarlos y exponerlos al público"_ o un lugar _"que contiene objetos valiosos o curiosos"_ ([link](https://www.rae.es/diccionario-estudiante/museo)). Bajo esta definición no conocí veinte museos en Buenos Aires, sino más del doble. The Café Tortoni, with its history, its walls, and the statues inside; the [Palacio Libertad](https://hive.blog/hive-163772/@cristiancaicedo/buenos-aires-most-beautiful-building-engoresp), the Recoleta Cultural Center, the comic strip promenade in San Telmo, even some Buenos Aires subway stations could all be considered museums. If you ask me, the city of Buenos Aires itself could be considered a huge museum. So, to broaden the scope of this series of posts, I decided to focus primarily on places that include the word "Museum" in their names. This means that over the next three months, I'll be showing you and talking to you about iconic sites like MALBA (Museum of Latin American Art), the classic Museum of Fine Arts, the Errázuriz Palace, which houses the Museum of Decorative Art, a museum dedicated to the Holocaust, another dedicated to the late Eva Perón, another focused on medieval Spanish art, a train museum, a car museum, and more special places, each with a unique charm, a unique identity, and pieces of art or history worth reflecting on. So, if you like museums, world history, or just want to walk with me through the streets of Buenos Aires and visit some of its cultural temples, stay tuned for my posts over the next few weeks. Of all the museums you've been to, which is your favorite? I'll read you in the comments.  |  --- | ---