Walking around Buenos Aires is always an opportunity to discover new corners of the city, but there is so much to see indoors as well. Discover the best exhibitions in Buenos Aires: we present a variety of outstanding exhibitions for you to live a unique cultural experience.
1. Women in Design
Fundación Proa welcomes the exhibition Women in Design Today. An international exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Vitra Design Museum, which presents more than 500 pieces made in different media from 1900 to the present day. The exhibition highlights some eighty women designers, including leading figures of modernism, contemporary creators and other personalities who until now have been little recognized in the history of design.
📍Pedro de Mendoza Av. 2073
2. De Blanco te Esperé at the Fernández Blanco Museum
De Blanco Te Esperé brings you a collection of wedding gowns produced mainly in Argentina between 1870 and 1926, along with a video that presents more than 200 photographs of bridal couples, offering a visual tour of the bridal trends of the time. A must-see experience for art and history lovers in Buenos Aires and certainly one of the best exhibits in Buenos Aires.
Fernández Blanco Museum of Hispano-American Art
📍Suipacha 1422. Retiro
Open Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 11 am to 7 pm. Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 11 am to 8 pm. Closed on Tuesdays. Available all year round.
3. Wonders. Historical collection of the Argentinean costume
Palacio Libertad brings you a journey through the history of the costume in a collection of more than 15 thousand costumes and textile pieces from the sixteenth century onwards. A journey through Argentine fashion through beautiful garments that reflect each era. One of the best exhibitions in Buenos Aires that you can see for free.
Libertad Palace📍Sarmiento 151
4. Times of revolution at the National Historical Museum.
The exhibition Tiempo de Revolución proposes a different view to understand the history of the foundation of Argentina and the Americas. In this exhibition you are going to see objects and images of the period from 1808 to 1824 in the Río de la Plata. This inside look and extracted from history makes this exhibition one of the best exhibitions in Buenos Aires.
Revolutionary Times
📍 National Historical Museum. Defense 1600
📅 Permanent exhibition from 2025.
Open from Wednesday to Sunday from 11hs to 19hs.
5. Carroña Última Forma
Carroña última forma is at the Centro Cultural recoleta and is an exhibition that works as a visual essay on the wounded body and the different manifestations of power, through 38 works by 11 fundamental artists of Argentine art. Admission to this and other exhibitions at the Centro Cultural recoleta is free for Argentine residents.
Centro Cultural recoleta 📍Junín 1130
6. Secret Museum at the Bellas Artes
Until May 4 you can discover a real secret museum in Buenos Aires. The Museum of Fine Arts brings to light a collection it had in its collection that had never left its archives. It consists of more than 250 works by very important Argentine and international artists.
You can visit this secret museum until May 4, 2025.
📍 Pavilion of temporary exhibitions of the National Museum of Fine Arts. Libertador Av. 1473
Tuesday to Friday from 11am to 7:30pm. Saturdays and Sundays from 10hs to 19:30hs.
7. Xul Solar Museum
The Xul Solar Museum is a museum with the best Xul Solar exhibition you can find (there are works by Xul Solar in the Malba for example) and it is important because Xul was a great Argentine artist with such a unique and particular style that made him connect with big name artists who shared his look. The entire collection is in chronological order and is a great surprise if you like to discover the best exhibitions in Buenos Aires. In addition, there are guided tours every day at 4 p.m. Buy your tickets now!
📍Laprida 1212
Tuesdays to Fridays from 12hs to 20hs / Saturdays from 12hs to 19hs / Sundays, Mondays and Holidays: Closed.
8. Los Doscientos: towards an alternative and inclusive collecting.
The Cultural Center of Spain in Buenos Aires, CCEBA, presents the exhibition Los Doscientos: hacia un coleccionismo alternativo e inclusivo, an approach to more than 30 contemporary Spanish artists, through original works and carefully selected publications. You can delve into the world of artists and publishing until May 31.
📍Lavalleja 1062
Tuesdays to Fridays from 2pm to 8pm and Saturdays from 3pm to 7pm. Sundays and holidays closed to the public
9. Celluloid Writings
Manuscripts of Prisioneros de la Tierra intervened by Darío Quiroga and César Tiempo, the four versions of the script of Los Pulpos, some gems from the Petit de Murat Archive such as Los verdes paraísos, handbills from 1940 and unpublished photos from the shooting of Boquitas pintadas. These are just some of the elements that make up the exhibition Escritos de Celuloide, Cine y Literatura Argentina (Celluloid Writings, Argentine Cinema and Literature). Photos, specialized magazines, movie posters, original scripts, programs, director’s notebooks, machines and direct testimonies that you can see at the National Library.
📍Agüero 2502
Until August 3, 2025, Monday to Friday from 9 am to 9 pm and Saturdays and Sundays from 12 pm to 7 pm at the Leopoldo Marechal Hall of the National Library.