History

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In its first decade, during the commemoration of the Centennial of the May Revolution, the museum already exhibited masterpieces by renowned artists such as Francisco de Goya, Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, Edgar Degas, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

A new era dawned in 1911 with the opening of the Argentine Pavilion, a monumental structure from the 1889 Paris Universal Exhibition, situated in Plaza San Martín. This marked the incorporation of notable new acquisitions, such as Édouard Manet’s ‘The surprised nymph’ and Claude Monet’s ‘Banks of the Seine.’

In 1933, the museum found its current home in the remodeled Recoleta Pump House, a work of art in itself designed by architect Alejandro Bustillo. This relocation saw the addition of valuable pieces, including ‘Woman by the sea’ by Paul Gauguin, ‘Le Moulin de la Galette’ by Vincent van Gogh, and ‘Christ in the Garden of Olives’ by El Greco.

Over the last decades of the 20th century, the museum opened its doors to the great museenents of modern art on an international level. Thus, works by geniuses such as Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Marc Chagall, Vassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lucio Fontana, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Henry Moore were added to its collection.