Tigre offers residents free cultural activities that mix art, literature, history and theatre. Among the proposals to experience during the summer there are visits to various museums and local cultural spaces, both on the mainland and in the Delta.
One of the proposals, which generally remains open all year round, is the tiger museum of modern art, (MAT)a cultural icon of the neighborhood, located at Paseo Victorica 972. Currently you can visit the samples: “Magda Frank, modern and pre-Columbian”; “Human fauna” of the Brickles Churches, “Artists of the mouth”, “The beginnings”; “historic tiger”; “The National Landscape” AND “The first metaphor is the river”.
The MAT can be visited from Wednesday to Sunday and public holidays from 13:00 to 18:00, admission is free, while the gardens are only open from Monday to Sunday and public holidays from 8:00 to 20:00. Any concern regarding the museum, the municipality recommends that you resolve your doubts by entering the museum’s website, Facebook or Instagram.
THE Xul Solar House Museum It is another of the most recommended attractions, located in Chacabuco and Los Ciruelos, Villa La Ñata, you can see the place where the artist lived the last years of his life. The artist had in mind to carry out a project in Tigre: to create a community life in which nature played a leading role.
In the property it is possible to visit the different spaces of the house, the garden, the ground floor and the interpretation centre. The tour takes place through a guided tour by reservation, and is open in the summer period from 13:00 to 17:00 on Fridays and Saturdays. To make an appointment, the ideal is to send an email to [email protected].
And history is not left behind when it comes to Tiger, which is why the opening of the Museum of the Reconquest know the history of Santiago de Liniers, which landed on the banks of the Tigre in 1806 during the first British invasion. On Avenida Liniers at 818, Tigre, you can find temporary exhibitions such as: “Always Malvinas” who owns objects, photographs and testimonies of ex-combatants belonging to the party, e “Restoration and Conservation”, which presents several pieces recovered in the restoration and conservation laboratory. Visits can be made from Wednesday to Sunday from 10.00 to 18.00, with free admission and without reservation.
THE houses museums From Domingo F. Sarmiento and the writer Haroldo Conti, in the Delta, near the river station, are also an option to visit in the summer. The importance of this space is in its antiquity, they contain objects, reviews, books, among other things, which generate curiosity in visitors.
THE sarmiento house, located in Río Sarmiento and Arroyo Reyes, is open from Wednesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00, its access is by island boat and can be visited free of charge and without reservation. He neighborhood social center and the the only public square in the Deltathat are there, one of the most important attractions of the nautical city is located inside.
On the same property, the Paula Albarracin Cultural Center, which has a public library and temporary exhibition halls for Tigre, Island and Mainland artists. It is currently “dials”an exhibition with paintings by the artist Verónica Di Toro.
The other house museum delta, belonging to Haroldo Conti, is located in Arroyo Gambado and Leber. To access it, you must choose a boat-taxi or your own means of transport. Inside was built a interpretation center, with a small library call: Writer’s cornerwhich owns copies of several editions of his workand the complete collection of the crisis magazine. Visits can be made on Fridays and Saturdays from 10:00 to 16:00, free of charge and without reservation.
Source: Clarin
