Firma y Odilo Estévez Municipal Decorative Art Museum, Art museum in Plaza 25 de Mayo, Rosario, Argentina.
The Firma y Odilo Estévez Museum occupies the house at Santa Fe 748, built between 1870 and 1888 and bought by the Estévez couple in 1921. Its rooms keep the family layout: a central hall, French and Spanish rooms, dining room, bedroom, boudoir, parlour, Spanish patio and a loggia. The dining room's Slavonian oak floor has a glass panel over excavated remains.
The residence opened as a museum in 1968 after Firma Mayor de Estévez donated her home to the City of Rosario in memory of her late husband, Odilo Estévez. This donation allowed the public to access a private art collection built over three decades.
The museum keeps the name the couple gave it: Firma Mayor Taltabull, born in Rosario in 1874, and Odilo Estévez Yáñez, a Galician from Freas de Eiras who arrived in Argentina at 14. Odilo founded the Yerbatera Paraguaya, sat on the city council for the Liga del Sur in 1911 and collected art with Firma from 1914. The Spanish patio and the Logia are part of the visit.
The museum occupies the house at Santa Fe 748, facing Plaza 25 de Mayo, close to the Palacio de los Leones, the cathedral and the Central Post Office. A second entrance to the exhibition room opens on San Lorenzo street, at the other side of the block. The building was closed for restoration from 2020 and reopened to the public on 30 May 2023.
Restoration work beneath the dining room uncovered historical remains, now visible through a glass panel floor. This archaeological discovery reveals the different layers of the building's past.
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