Argentina Guide
The Litoral and the Gran Chaco
Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes Juan B. Castagnino
Address: Avenida Pellegrini 2202, Parque de la Independencia
Opening time: Mon & Wed– Sat 2–8pm, Sun 1–7pm
Website: www.museocastagnino.org
Price: $1
The Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes Juan B. Castagnino is regarded as the country's most important fine arts museum after the Museo de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires. The museum has two permanent collections: European painting from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries, with works by Goya, Sisley and Daubigny, among others, and Argentine painting with examples from major artists such as Spilimbergo and Quinquela Martín, plus Antonio Berni and Lucio Fontana, both born in Rosario. The museum, arranged on two floors with large and well-lit rooms, also puts on some excellent temporary exhibitions – it's well worth looking out for exhibitions featuring local artists, who are producing some of Argentina's most interesting contemporary work.