Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
Buenos Aires · Argentina · Founded 1895
Argentina's national art museum — the largest in Latin America by collection size, with works by Rodin, Rembrandt, El Greco, and the most comprehensive survey of Argentine art from colonial to contemporary.
About Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (MNBA) was founded in 1895 and is now housed in a former water pumping station converted in 1933 in the Recoleta district of Buenos Aires. With over 12,000 works, it holds the largest art collection in Latin America and is free to enter.
The international collection features major works spanning six centuries: El Greco, Rembrandt, Rubens, Goya, Cézanne, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rodin, Picasso, and Kandinsky. The Argentine collection is unmatched in its depth — documenting the full arc of Argentine art from colonial painting through 19th-century romanticism, Impressionism, European-influenced modernism, and the internationally significant Buenos Aires avant-garde of the 1960s.
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