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Photo © Ana Lisa Alperovich for Inhabitat
 
Its 54,000 square foot galleries coming in and out from the bright and wide patio area are the results of beautifully restored existing building structures. The museum is based where the city’s Fort used to be back in 1580; in 1855 it was the site for Taylor Customs; and since 1957 as the Governmental Pink House Museum, now restored into Museo del Bicentenario.

The Museo del Bicentenario blends history and modern technology in an elegant and conscientious way, deep under Buenos Aires’ Pink Governmental House. Its 54,000 square foot galleries stretch in and out of a bright and wide patio area and a beautifully-restored building.

The museum is settled within the city’s former fort structure, once used from 1580 until 1855 when it was then transformed into the site for Taylor Customs welcoming people and goods in from the Old World. From 1957 on, the structure served as the Governmental Pink House Museum, and now the building is the newly restored Museo del Bicentenario.

Designed by a group of engineers, architects, restoration specialists and the Federal Planning and Public Investment Ministry, many original features like old wooden beams that come out from the pink stone walls reminds visitors and the museum staff the importance of working with long-lasting sustainable materials, which at the same time, touch on the romance of the historic site.

3 Responses to “Gorgeous Underground Museum Hides Below Buenos Aires’ Government House”

  1. jbellande jBellande says:

    Hi,
    I’m from Argentina, I live in BsAs…
    This museum is enabled???

    I’m system Analist, I like ECO designs

  2. adbecker adbecker says:

    Dear Ana Lisa
    My name is Daniel Becker and I am a principal of B4FS,(web page http://www.b4fs.com) the architectural office that have designed the Bicentenary Museum, in Buenos Aires. This mail is intended only to thanks for your kind words regarding the Museum, and to comment about a curious situation. My last partner in Buenos Aires was Sergio Alperovich (there not many Alperovich´s in Argentina) a builder from Buenos Aires.
    Thanks again,
    Regards,
    Dany Becker

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