In the traditional neighborhood of Montserrat, near San Telmo, it’s located the Museum of the City. The institution is distributed in several patrimonial houses which are among the first ones built in our city. Nowadays, the main entrance is on the old Farmacia de la Estrella (412 Alsina St.). The main house (Elorriaga’s family house), just steps away from the Farmacia is being restored. Hostel Colonial offers you a glimpse of the old Buenos Aires.
The building’s current facade (1895) belongs to the fusion period between Italian and French architecture, and its opening coincides with the opening of the Avenida de Mayo. It’s one of the city’s oldest drugstores and it conserves its original furniture and mural paintings. Just along this building, it’s the House of Querubines (Defensa 219/223), a three-story mansion with many rooms preserving the furniture, ornaments, etc.
The proposal of the museum is visiting this traditional group of houses which still conserve the atmosphere of its time, so you can know Buenos Aires as it was more than a century ago. Watch the furniture, the ornaments, the technology of that time, the clothing, among others. The museum is a different way to know our city. A house says a lot about its owners, their time and the society they live in.
Not only the houses which belong to the museum have been restored, all of the facades in the corner of Alsina and Defensa streets were renewed. They are part of a larger plan to seeking to preserve the Historic Urban Area, the oldest center of our city, south of Plaza de Mayo. The Museum of the City shows you the evolution of Buenos Aires and its habits from a new and different sight.
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