Buenos Aires is a child friendly city and there many things to do every day of the year. Here are some recommendations on what to do with small kids in the city.

RESTAURANTS:

Except for very fancy restaurants, most restaurants in Buenos Aires welcome children. Argentine families use to eat out very often, even until the very late hours of the night. Many restaurants offer kid's menus (“menu infantil”) at a fixed price, that usually include pasta, or the traditional “milanesa con papas fritas” (breaded meat with French fries), which is Argentine children´s favorite dish.

OUTINGS: 

Japanese Garden: This is a great place for children and adults alike. There´s a playground for children, and they will have the chance to feed the koy fish in the ponds, with the fish food sold at the kiosks. More info>>

Plaza Francia, Recoleta: On weekends, there are free performances for children in the park, like clowns, magicians, or puppet shows. At the crafts fair there are lots of hand-made toys on sale: puppets, wooden puzzles, mobiles, musical instruments, as well as dolls, jewelry, bags, scarves, for girls of all ages.

Ecological reserve: located at Puerto Madero neighborhood, this is a protected piece of land by the river, where you will have the chance to see some wild animals at their natural habitat, like otters, turtles, and many kinds of birds. There are also bicycles for rent at the entrance of the park. More info>>.

Malba - Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (Latin American Art Museum) is one of the newest museums in Buenos Aires. It opened its doors in September 2001. Malba is a non-profit institution featuring the private art collection of Argentine entrepreneur Eduardo Costantini. Since 1990, his collection was open for the consideration of local and international specialists, and lent for Latin American art exhibitions around Latin America and Europe.

In 1998 the construction of a new building to hold the collection began, after the selection of a project by Argentine architects Gastón Atelman, Martín Fourcade and Alfredo Tapia from an international call by the International Union of Architects.

The Costantini Collection consists of a selection of more than two hundred works, including drawings, paintings, sculptures and objects by 78 artists from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Uruguay and Venezuela. Some of the featured artists are: Frida Kahlo, Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Diego Rivera, Joaquín Torres-García, Antonio Berni, Emiliano Di Cavalcanti, Jorge de la Vega, Tarsila do Amaral, Pedro Figari, Lygia Clark, Helio Oiticica, Liliana Porter, Guillermo Kuitca and José Bedia Valdés, among others.

Besides the permanent collection, the museum features temporary exhibitions throughout the year, a movie theater with a daily program, a film library, an educational program with workshops and conferences for adults and children, and guided visits to the permanent and temporary exhibitions.

Location: Avda. Figueroa Alcorta 3415, Buenos Aires.

Opening times:
Thursday to Monday: 12 noon - 8 pm

Wednesday: 11 am - 8 pm

Tuesdays closed.

Entry fees:
General: AR $ 8000.-
Teachers, students and pensioners: AR $ 4000.-
Children under 5/disabled people: free.
Wednesdays:
General: AR $ 4000.-
Teachers, students and pensioners: Free.-

For more information on present and future exhibitions, visit MALBA official website.

All the materials, like wood panelings, mirrors, moldings, were brought from Europe. The rooms in the main floor were decorated in different French styles from the XVII and XVIII century, except for the Grand Hall, inspired in the large rooms typical of XVI century England in the time of the Tudor dynasty.


In the apartments of the first floor we can also see the taste for French decoration in Louis XV, Louis XVI, Directory and Imperium style. The only exception is the Art Decó room decorated by Catalonian artist José María Sert.

The Dining Room and the Ball Room are copies in a smaller scale of similar rooms at the Versailles Palace.




The permanent collection of the museum includes more tan 4000 objects, from roman sculptures to contemporary hand made silver creations. The biggest interest in the collection is focused on the European and Oriental decorative pieces, sculptures and paintings from the XVI to XIX century, many of which belonged to the Errázuriz-Alvear family.

There are also temporary exhibitions throughout the year, focused mainly in decorative arts, fashion, tapestry, jewelry, and small objects.

There is a beautiful small caffe-restaurant in the courtyard with a lovely atmosphere.





Location: Av. del Libertador 1902
Opening times: Wednesday to Sunday, 1.00 PM to 7:00 PM. 

Guided visits: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, at 4:00 pm, without previous reservation.
Entrance to the Museum is FREE every day.
For more information on present and future exhibitions, visit National Museum of Decorative Arts official website.

The Larreta residence was built in 1886 as a summer cottage in the Italian Renaissance style. It was surrounded by a garden with fruit and ornamental trees, beds with aromatic plants, and an orchard.
His subsequent owner, writer Enrique Larreta, after serving in the foreign service in France, brought an important art collection of Spanish works of art to decorate his new home. He also transformed the estate into the Spanish Renaissance style, with a significant collection of paintings, altarpieces, wood carvings, and furniture from the XIV to the XX century. In April 1962, at the death of the writer, his sons sold the house to the city of Buenos Aires and donated his collection of works of art and furniture
The collection that gave birth to the museum consisted primarily of wooden sculptures and paintings from the Renaissance ans Baroque periods, as well as a noteworthy set of furniture, arms, and decorative arts that embellished the different rooms in the house. The writer's collection was increased by acquisitions, donations and transfers of more than 30 works from the Museum ofHispanic-American Art Isaac Frenandez Blanco, that blended perfectly with the original collection.

There are several sculptures spread around the garden, one of which is a terracotta reproduction of Donatello's David.

Tourists: AR$5,000. Children under 12, pensioners and students with accreditation: free.
Wednesdays Free for all

Guided Visits to the Andalusian Garden: The 4th Thursday of every month, at 12:00 noon, and the first Saturday of every month at 3:00 pm, included in the cost of ticket. Suspended in case of rain.

Enrique Larreta Museum Website (in Spanish only)

Situated on Libertador Avenue 1473, this museum has one of the most important art collections in Latin America. The ground floor of the museum houses a fine international collection of paintings from the Middle Ages up to the 20th century. It contains paintings by El Greco, Rubens, Tiepolo, Van de Velde, Tiziano, Zurbarán, and Goya, among others.

In April 2019, the Museum has been renewed to present to the public two permanent galleries dedicated to the Pre-Columbian Art and Colonial Art collections in the ground floor, with around 400 pre-Hispanic pieces from the Argentinian North-West cultures. 

Nineteenth century French painting is thoroughly represented, with works by Corot, Manet, Boudin, Cézanne, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rodin, Degas, and others. There are also works by 19th century and early 20th century Spanish artists, including Ramón Casas, Ignacio Zuloaga and Pablo Picasso.

The Anne Frank House in Argentina was inaugurated on June 12, 2009, the day of her 80th birthday. It is located in Superi 2647, in the neighborhood of Belgrano, being the first institution member of the Anne Frank House in Latin America.

The house features an exact reproduction of the rooms in the original hiding place in Amsterdam where Anne Frank and other seven people went into hiding from the Nazis for more than two years, including the movable bookcase that served as entrance to the Secret Annex of the house, the kitchen, the bathroom, the living room, and Anne's complete bedroom, as well as a reproduction of her famous diary.
There's also a "Free2Choose" room, with an interactive film screening, made by the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, in which film clips are used to invite visitors to think about issues concerning human rights and freedoms.
The House offers guided visits, workshops and seminars aimed to educators, students and members of defense institutions.

Opening hours:  Thursday, Friday, Saturday and last Saturday of every month, 2pm to 7pm

Students and Seniors: AR$4000.-

For more information on present and future exhibitions, visit Casa de Ana Frank official website.

The Museum of Reproductions and Comparative Sculpture “Ernesto de la Cárcova” was inaugurated in 1928, and named after the artist who was the founder and first director of the Fine Arts School and the National Academy of Fine Arts.
It is the oldest and most important museum of its kind in Latin America. Its value lies in the notable quality of the reproductions exhibited. The museum's collection is made up of die-cast copies or casts taken from the original pieces. Most of them, specially the ones from classic Greece, are first copies of the originals on exhibition at the British Museum, the Louvre, or L'Accademia in Florence.
This is one of the least visited museums in Buenos Aires, but one of the most important in terms of the value of its collections.

The Museum is divided into three rooms organized in a chronological order:

On the center of the first room, the imposing actual size figure of Michelangelo Buonarotti's "David" is surrounded by the "Slave"; Lorenzo de Medici "Il pensieroso"; "Moses" and the "Pieta", among other works from the Renaissance period.




The second room is mainly dedicated to Greek art, including the "Winged Victory of Samothrace"; the "Venus de Milo"; Apolonio's "Belvedere Torso"; sculptural groups from the Parthenon, that can be seen at the British Museum; “Afrodita and Dione”; “Ilisos”, and other classic Greek sculptures friezes.

The third room presents Egyptian, Assyrian, Indian and Pre Hispanic American art. On the wall, the "Zodiac of Dendera" is one of the most important pieces in the museum.

Museo de Calcos y Escultura Comparada "Ernesto de la Cárcova”
Location: Avda. España 1701 & Elvira Rawson de Dellepianne. Costanera Sur. Buenos Aires.

Opening hours: 
Tuesday to Sunday: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm

National Holidays Closed.
Entrance: Voluntary contribution of AR$ 500 

For more information visit Museo de la Cárcova official website.

The "Colección de Arte Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat" houses one of the most outstanding art collections in Buenos Aires, and should be added to the must-see list of any person visiting Buenos Aires.

It originated from the private collection of Mrs. Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, one of the wealthiest women in Argentina, and an avid collector of artworks from different periods by national and international authors.

The collection is made up of over two hundred artworks and objects, organized into two main cores, according to their provenance: the first presents a visit through Argentinean art, and the second, great masters of international art.

Some of the most outstanding works in the Argentinian Art exhibition area are: "Apartando en el corral" (Sorting in the Corral) and "Los Capataces" (The Overseers), by Prilidiano Pueyrredón; "La resistencia" (Resistance) and "El indeciso" (The Indecisive One) by Emilio Pettoruti; "El almuerzo" (The Lunch) by Antonio Berni. The rest of the collection features outstanding works by many great Argentinian painters, like Carlos Alonso, Libero Badii, Juan Battle Planas, Fernando Fader, Xul Solar, Leopoldo Presas, Guillermo Roux, among others.

There's also a section exclusively dedicated to international art, with works by great masters from different periods, among them: Peter Brueghel II, with his piece "El censo en Belén" (The Census in Bethlehem); Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema; Marc Chagall; Salvador Dali; Jean-Baptiste Greuze; Auguste Rodin; Andy Warhol and his portrait of Mrs Fortabat; and Joseph Mallord William Turner, with "Juliet and her Nurse", the most outstanding piece in the collection and one of the highlights of the visit.

The building that houses the Colección de Arte Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat was especially designed Architect Rafael Viñoly. Its exhibition spaces and public, private and service areas are distributed on six rectangular floors, and the entire complex is oriented parallel to the Dock. The ground floor is divided into two sectors, with a large entrance hall, an auditorium for lectures, and the cafe. The first and second floors are visible from outside the building and are crowned by a curved arch of glass and steel fitted with enormous aluminum sunshades, movable panels that allow the interior illumination of the upper floors to be controlled by way of an automatic aperture mechanism. The floors below ground level extend further and have been constructed on a monumental scale.

Address: Olga Cossettini 141. Puerto Madero

Opening hours: Thursday through Sunday: 12 noon to 8 pm

Admission:
General: AR$4,000.
Reduced fee for children under 12, senior citizens, students and educators with ID: AR$2,000.-
Thursdays: General admission AR$2,000 and free for children under 12, senior citizens, students and educators with ID

Website: www.coleccionfortabat.org.ar

The National Museum of Fine Arts has reopened to the public, after 70 years, the rooms for the Guerrico Collection, which include ivory pieces, vases, silver pieces, and a group of European sculptures and paintings from the 19th century, which from now on are an integral part of the permanent collection of the museum

Considered as the first Argentine collector, Manuel José de Guerrico (1800-1876) started to build his art collection at his home in Paris, which he brought to Argentina in 1848. It was later enriched by his son José Prudencio (1837-102), who donated 22 pieces with the purpose of contributing to the creation of the National Museum of Fine Arts in 1859. In 1938 the whole of the collection, that is now on exhibition, was donated to the museum by the descendants of both collectors. It was composed of 627 pieces: paintings, sculptures, miniatures, porcelains, boxes, fans, lacquers, ivories, crystals, wood carvings, silver pieces. On that year the collection was in exhibition for a while and then put away in the deposit. Today the pieces of this collection are exhibited again in a room especially built to recreate the way in which art collections were displayed at the end of the 19th century, with dim lights and dark walls.





Some of the outstanding pieces of the collection are: works from the Barbizon School; "The sacrifice of Melquisedec"; scenes from the Flemish genre; religious Italian and Spanish paintings; "Monk praying", by Francisco Zurbarán; "Diana Surprised" (picture), by Joseph Lefebvre; "The murder of Dr Manuel Vicente Mazza", by Prilidiano Pueyrredón, "Portrait of André Gil" and "Rocks", by Gustave Courbet; "Ville d`Avray", by Camille Corot, among others. There are also some works from previous centuries, like "Hebrews picking up Manna in the desert", by Giovanni Tiépolo (1692-1769).

Among the sculptures, a dozen of anonymous bronzes from the 17th and 18th centuries; some pieces by artists like Gustave Doré and Antonio Tantardini; and the work "La defense" by Auguste Rodin, along with Japanese carvings, or silver Argentine "mates" from the colonial times.