Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes

The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (MNBA) in Buenos Aires is the most important art museum in Latin America and one of the great art museums of the world. Founded in 1895 and housed in a purpose-built Beaux-Arts building in the Recoleta neighbourhood, it holds a collection of over 12,000 works spanning seven centuries of European and Argentine art. European highlights include works by Rembrandt, Rubens, El Greco, Goya, Delacroix, Rodin, Degas, Monet, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Van Gogh. The Argentine collection is equally outstanding, documenting the country's artistic development from the colonial period through to contemporary times, with comprehensive representation of the major Argentine masters. Admission is free.