Evita Fine Arts Museum, Art museum in New Cordoba district, Argentina

The Evita Fine Arts Museum occupies the Ferreyra Palace, a Beaux-Arts mansion designed by French architect Ernest Sanson and built between 1912 and 1916. Its facades are clad in a Paris-stone imitation, with plant and animal ornament and a metal-and-glass roof adding Art Nouveau touches. Inside, rooms ring a central hall with a large staircase and perimeter balcony; the museum has 12 halls, a library and an auditorium for 120.

A French architect designed this palace between 1912 and 1916 for a prominent physician and limestone industry magnate. The building was later transformed into a museum and named after the wife of a major 20th-century Argentine president.

The museum's name honours Eva Perón, chosen in December 2007 shortly after it opened as the Ferreyra Palace Fine Arts Museum. Its 12 halls hold over 500 works, among them pieces by Emilio Caraffa, Fernando Fader, Antonio Seguí and Joaquín Sorolla, plus Carlos Alonso's Manos anónimas series and sculptures such as Clara Ferrer Serrano's La Celestina.

The museum occupies the block beside Plaza España and Sarmiento Park in Nueva Córdoba. All floors have restrooms, elevators and wheelchairs available for visitors with reduced mobility. The basement holds the auditorium, administration, storage and three exhibition rooms; the main floor has the great hall, a café and three more rooms, with three tall rooms on the first floor and three smaller ones in the attic.

The Imperial Bedroom (Dormitorio Imperio) is named for its furniture, copied by the Paris cabinetmaker Krieger from pieces used by Napoleon Bonaparte. The palace also kept 60 rooms, 19 bathrooms and a Louis XIV-style iron gate with 424 metres of gilded railing on pink granite bases.