EVITA MUSEUM (By Hostel Buenos Aires)

The Evita Museum, located on 2988 Lafinur St., Palermo, is an excellent option to learn more about the history of one of the most famous Argentine women. The place has objects and pictures that belonged to the wife of the President Juan Domingo Perón. In addition, the Museum hosts a marvelous restaurant in its backyard.

The building housing the Evita Museums is a wonderful construction which dates from beginnings of the XX Century. Eva Perón bought it in 1948 for the María Eva Duarte de Perón Social Care Foundation, to install the Transit Home Nº 2, where abandoned and unemployed women were assisted. In 1956, the military government expropriated the Foundation and the building became an administrative office for several years. In 1999, the building was transferred to the Eva Perón Historic Research Institute, to host the Evita Museum.

The place captures the life, work and thinking of Evita for those who doesn’t know her, for the ones that know her but want to learn more about her, for those who want to remember. The Museum hold donated and borrowed objects from many people that shared their life with her. Also, historic pictures from the National File and from the photographer Juan Manuel Repetto. The Museum has a public library, an auditorium and a gift shop.

Those who visit it, should try its excellent restaurant, specialized in Italian-Porteño food. A nice place to have lunch in the open patio, by the trees, or in its warmth interior for these cold autumn nights. Open everyday from 9AM to 12.30AM. The restaurant entrance is 3926 J. M. Gutiérrez St. The Museum opens from Tuesday to Sunday, from 11AM to 7PM.