Bicentennial Museum

The Bicentennial Museum is located on Av. Paseo Colón 100, in the former Taylor Customs galleries, in the Montserrat neighborhood. It is also taken as an annex of the Casa Rosada, the headquarters of the Executive Branch of the Republic. The museum was inaugurated in 2011 on the initiative of President Cristina Fernández, in the framework of the celebrations for the Bicentennial of the Nation.

The place allows you to visit the remains of the Fort of Buenos Aires, belonging to the eighteenth century, which has parts still intact and well preserved within the museum. In addition, you can find remains of the Taylor Customs, built in 1855. The museum has a special space for the Plastic Exercise painting, made by Mexican muralist David Alfaro Sequeiros in 1933.

In the museum there are also several important pictorial works, by authors such as Clorindo Testa, Ricardo Carpani, Luis Felipe Noé, Octavio Fioravanti, Carlos Terribli and Karl Kauffman. The building of the Fort was originally called Royal Fortress of Don Juan Baltasar of Austria, and in the 18th century its name was changed to Castillo de San Miguel. Details were added to the construction, such as a drawbridge, canyons and a moat.

Taylor Customs, on the other hand, stood with its back to the Fort. It was built in 1855 and had two sectors: one semicircular and a Patio de Maneuvers. After being demolished, the Galleries and the Courtyard of Maneuvers were buried, which after an archaeological excavation in 1942 were rescued, and between that year and 1983 the exhumation works were carried out. The restoration began in 2009.