THE QUINQUELA MARTÍN MUSEUM

The Quinquela Martín Museum is located in the La Boca neighborhood. The place where Caminito Street tributes this tango city, where the Puente Viejo (Old Bridge) sums up the port landscape and the Boca Juniors Stadium summons multitudes every Sunday. This traditional bright-colored neighborhood, built by immigrants (mostly Italian) and port workers is what Benito Quinquela Martín works depicts.

It’s Museum, which as its figure and its painting are inseparable from the neighborhood, has been declared National Historic Monument. It´s magnificent building in the 1835 Pedro de Mendoza Avenue, where the Museum works along with two schools, was built in 1936. It still preserves its Art Deco style and gives you the chance to stare through the same windows from which the artist captured the La Boca port and its landscapes.

In that very place, where the artist lived, lives its works and everything he gave to his neighborhood. The Museum coexists with a dentist hospital, an elementary school, a teaching institution specialized in plastic arts and a theater (today known as Teatro de La Ribera). “The heart of its work is the conviction that art is for everybody. The first thing in which he thought was to return the neighborhood everything it gave him”, tell the Museum Director.

In this place, besides appreciating the Quinquela Martin works, are organized all kind of cultural activities oriented to the transmission of the Museum’s artistic patrimony and the promotion, experience interchange, diffusion and invitation to the participation of society. All this pursuing the goal of integrating the neighborhood community to which Quinquela Martín and the Museum belong.