08 October 2006
 
A weekend of culture and...

Manzana de las luces III
Originally uploaded by cyph3r.
Last night was the night of the museums, la noche de los museos, in which 76 museums were open all over the city, free, from 7pm until 2am. We went to a few in the centre:

The Comisión Nacional de la Manzana de las Luces, is an old Jesuit building, among the oldest in BA, built in the 17th century... there are extensive tunnels underneath it, but a few million other people had the same idea so we contented ourselves with walking round some old rooms that smelled of damp... the wallpaper was peeling too, but then it was pretty old.

El Museo de la Ciudad, was basically full of old doors and vacuum cleaners and such... interesting stuff, no really... and upstairs there was a ton of old toys, including Estanciero! (changed thanks to a correction from Inkel ) a Monopoly clone where you build estancias (ranches) in different parts of the country. Oh and this museum was filled with people saying 'I had one of those' and wondering how much their old toys would be worth now.

El Museo Etnográfico, this was in a fantastic building with a great courtyard behind it. It was stuffed with, well, anthropological stuff from all over the country.

Palacio Nacional de las Artes - Palais de Glace: this is an old ice rink(?), but, unlike the Bradford ice rink, this was designed as a deco paean to skating, oval and marble covered, with loads of columns and a great circular ceiling... now it's an art gallery, and there were some good, some bad bits of art. We were here at 1:30 and it was packed, like everywhere else last night.

There were too many people to get a good look at the exhibits but it was a great taster.

And the ...? the non culture... well River played Boca this afternoon. (3-1 to River, a bit of an upset given current form).
 
Comments:
Oh John, this post was a great coverage of what it was La Noche de los Museos. I was about to go, but at last minute I decide not to. As far as everybody told me, it was a good decission because of the long queues at every museum.

Oh, by the way, the game is called "Estanciero", and not Estacionero ;)

I thing I'm learning more from Buenos Aires reading wyle than visiting places! ;)
 

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