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16-476: Since 1995, the museum is located in a building that had previously operated as coffeehouse (and originally a dairy farm) at Parque Tres de Febrero in the Palermo neighborhood . Its collection of objects is estimated in 4,000 pieces of art. Founded on the initiative of city councilman Fernando Ghio, who proposed the creation of a municipal museum devoted to Argentine artists (as a more specialized counterpart of

32-614: A permanent home for the museum, the former Hostal del Ciervo Café (name taken from a neighbor sculpture named "family of deers" by French artist Georges Gardet ) facing the Parque Tres de Febrero rose garden. The Norman -styled building, built in 1912, was refurbished with a modern annex housing two wings, and inaugurated on August 4, 1996. The 4,000 m (43,000 ft²) museum, directed since its reinaugural by María Isabel de Larrañaga (the daughter of an Argentine painter, Enrique de Larrañaga (1900–1956)), maintains over 4,000 works; among

48-537: The Galileo Galilei planetarium , in 1966. Its Modernist architecture is distinctive in the city—a sphere supported by three arches. A popular field trip destination for the city's schoolchildren , the planets and other astronomical phenomena are projected on the dome, inside. An Edwardian -style former café on the grounds became the Eduardo Sívori Museum in 1996. Many people use

64-544: The Mayor Antonio Crespo. The Zoo contained 89 species of mammals, 49 species of reptiles and 175 species of birds, with a total of over 2,500 different animals. The institution's goals were to conserve species, produce research, and to educate the public. It is located opposite Plaza Italia at the junction of the Las Heras and Sarmiento Avenue . It was closed to the public in 2016. The Japanese garden

80-615: The National Museum of Fine Arts ) in 1933, the institution was inaugurated in 1938 as the "Municipal Museum of Fine Arts , Applied Art , and Comparative Art." The museum became the venue for the annual municipal art salon , first held in 1936. The museum was originally housed in the Buenos Aires City Legislature ( City Council Building ).Its second director, Carlos Abregú Virreira, drew from his rustic, Santiago del Estero Province background to augment

96-474: The neighborhood of Palermo in Buenos Aires , Argentina. Located between Libertador and Figueroa Alcorta Avenues , it is known for its groves, lakes, and rose gardens ( El Rosedal ). Following the 1852 overthrow of strongman Juan Manuel de Rosas , his extensive northside Buenos Aires properties became public lands and, in 1862, a municipal ordinance provided for a city park on most of that land. On

112-457: The Argentine artists represented are Líbero Badii, Cesáreo Bernaldo de Quirós , Antonio Berni , Pío Collivadino , Lucio Correa Morales , Pedro Figari ( Uruguay ), Antonio Pujía , Guillermo Roux , Lino Enea Spilimbergo , Rogelio Yrurtia , and its namesake, Eduardo Sívori. The permanent exhibit halls are complemented by one for temporary displays, an art library, restoration workshop, and

128-603: The Ivelyse Gordon de Grimaldi Sculpture Garden. The museum's finances suffered during the 1998–2002 Argentine great depression , and numerous works were put at auction from 2000 to 2004 by the Friends of the Sívori Museum Association; one work, by Expressionist painter Rómulo Macció , was auctioned at a reported one-twentieth of its market value. Expanding its schedule of educational events with

144-936: The José Hernandez Museum, in 1955, and the Bunge house's designation as its site led to the Sívori's move to a Retiro neighborhood mansion. The ongoing, northward expansion of Ninth of July Avenue forced yet another relocation, to the new San Martín Cultural Center , in 1961. It was merged with the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art between 1975 and 1977 as the Municipal Museum of Visual Arts, and did not regain its administrative autonomy until 1982; its collections continued to grow through acquisitions, as well as private donations and bequeathals. A 1995 initiative by Mayor Jorge Domínguez resulted in

160-487: The initiative of Congressman Vicente Fidel López and President Domingo Sarmiento , work began in 1874 on Parque Tres de Febrero (February 3 Park), named in honor of February 3, 1852, the date of the defeat of Governor Rosas, among whose opponents had been Sarmiento. Designed by urbanist Jordán Czeslaw Wysocki and architect Julio Dormal , the park was inaugurated on November 11, 1875. The dramatic economic growth of Buenos Aires afterwards helped to lead to its transfer to

176-770: The municipal domain in 1888, whereby French Argentine urbanist Carlos Thays was commissioned to expand and further beautify the park, between 1892 and 1912. Thays designed the Zoological Gardens , the Botanical Gardens , the adjoining Plaza Italia and the Rose Garden. The Andalusian Patio and Monument to the Four Argentine Regions (the "Spaniards' Monument") were added in 1927, the Municipal Velodrome in 1951 and

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192-505: The museum's 1952 relocation to an Avenida del Libertador house which had belonged to a patron of traditional Argentine art, Félix Bunge (1894–1935). Its relocation involved the transfer of some 130 works, however, to other institutions and over the objection to the Sívori Museum authorities. The event, moreover, began an era of impermanence and uncertainty for the museum. The establishment of one of these recipients of this transfer,

208-810: The museum's collection with works from the Argentine Northwest during his 1943–1951 tenure. The museum was renamed in 1946 for the "portraiteur of the pampas ", the late Realist painter Eduardo Sívori ; Sívori had founded the first artisan guild in Argentina, the Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts, where he served as president. The installation of the Eva Perón Foundation in the City Council Building led to

224-460: The park every day, both on foot and bicycle, and this number increases greatly at the weekends. Boat rides are available on the three artificial lakes within the park. Close to the boating lake is the Poets' Garden, with stone and bronze busts of renowned poets, including Jorge Luis Borges , Luigi Pirandello and William Shakespeare . The Buenos Aires Zoo was a 45-acre (18-ha) zoo founded in 1888 by

240-419: The subsequent improvement in its finances, the museum continues to host the annual Manuel Belgrano salon. 34°34′9″S 58°25′5″W  /  34.56917°S 58.41806°W  / -34.56917; -58.41806 Parque Tres de Febrero Parque Tres de Febrero , popularly known as Bosques de Palermo ( Palermo Woods ), is an urban park of approximately 400 hectares (about 989 acres) located in

256-759: Was opened in 1967 at its current location, occupying a part of the Parque Tres de Febrero, in Plaza Sicilia. Is located in Adolfo Berro Avenue and front of the Alemania square. The demolition of the original Japanese Garden in the Retiro area led to the 1967 opening of the current Buenos Aires Japanese Gardens , the World's largest outside Japan . The gardens were inaugurated on occasion of

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