Rural silver
Gaucho gear.
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The José Hernández Folk Art Museum is named after the author of Martín Fierro, the best-known epic poem of gaucho life, and fills an old house on Avenida del Libertador in Palermo. It is devoted to Argentine folk art and crafts, and to valuing craftspeople as creators. Its collection began with the country objects of Félix Bunge, who gave the house, and grew from there; its most important purchase, in 1949, was the collection of Carlos Daws, a gathering of gaucho heritage. Today it holds rural silverwork, textiles and ponchos, leather and carved wood, mate cups of gourd and horn, wicker baskets and painted papier-mâché figures, alongside contemporary crafts collected since 2004 from the city's crafts biennial. Its library is one of the country's most important on folklore and gaucho literature. It closes on Tuesdays, and foreigners pay a higher fee than residents.
Gaucho gear.
Regional colours.
From the biennial.
Avenida del Libertador 2373, Palermo
MALBA, Latin American Art MuseumMALBA, the Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires, opened on 21 September 2004 minutes walk4.5
National Museum of Decorative Art (Palacio Errázuriz)The National Museum of Decorative Art fills the Palacio Errázuriz, one of Buenos6 minutes walk4.6
Japanese Garden, Buenos AiresThe Japanese Garden is a quiet haven in Palermo, opened in 1967 for the visit to9 minutes walk4.5
Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno (National Library)The Mariano Moreno National Library is Argentina's most important deposit librar10 minutes walk
Museo EvitaMuseo Evita is devoted to the life of Eva Perón, wife of President Juan Domingo 11 minutes walkGaucho and folk crafts: silver, textiles, leather and wood, plus contemporary crafts.