Athena - Argentina - Museum Day!

Today was another museum day (and I spent some time studying Spanish of course). This post is mostly pics so enjoy...

Malba Museum

Malba Art Museum

Today I went to the famed Malba Museum in downtown Buenos Aires. It's mostly a museum of modern art which means there's lots of cool stuff and lots of weird stuff too.

Diego Rivera's Retrato de Ramon Gomez de la Serna

Lillian Porter's Man with An Axe.  This was a very interesting display. It looked semi-organized like she started with a well thought out plan and then just started dumping stuff on the table. Any way, I got slightly yelled at by security for leaning (unknowingly) on the table while taking this pic. Oops!

Football plays as artwork? I'm sure the artist, Victor Magarinos, didn't mean for this picture to look like a diagrammed football play, but that's what it first reminded me of.


A lot of the sidewalks here are patterned, which is cooler than our boring cement sidewalks back home. This pattern is quite different from others that I've seen and it uses color.

After the Malba museum I checked out the Evita Peron Museum which was a view blocks away. The lighting inside wasn't that good for pics (and my camera phone doesn't have a flash) so that meant no inside pics. But overall the museum provided a good summary of Evita's life. I really liked that they displayed some of the dresses she wore (kinda like one of the Smithsonian displays previous first ladies' dresses).