Museo de Arte Hispano Fernández Blanco
The Museo de Arte Hispano Fernández Blanco is a museum in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires . It is located on Calle Suipacha in the Retiro district in a 1920s house, also known as the Palacio Noel, built in a neo-colonial style by the architect Martín Noel .
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The building was originally built by the architect as a personal home. In 1936 the city acquired the house along with the art collection that Noel had built up over the years. A year later, the Museo de Arte Colonial was opened. In 1943 Isaac Fernández Blanco donated his collection to the museum and in 1947 it was renamed in his honor.
Fernández Blanco was an engineer interested in music and the family fortune helped him build a collection of string instruments. He later expanded his interest to include objects from Latin America, including silver objects, paintings, furniture, books, and documents. Further donations to the museum were made in 1963 by Celina González Garaño and in 1991 by her brother Alfredo.
Fernández Blanco's legacy is considered to be one of the most important Latin American art. Silver dishes from today's Bolivia and the Río de la Plata, Peruvian paintings, old photographs with views of Quito or Jesuit settlements as well as furniture and decorative objects from Brazil. You can also see tortoiseshell or horn hair combs used by women in the Río de la Plata region in the first half of the 19th century.
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Coordinates: 34 ° 35 ′ 28.3 ″ S , 58 ° 22 ′ 48.9 ″ W.