Carnacini House Museum, Art museum in Villa Ballester, Argentina.
The Carnacini House Museum occupies a restored early 20th-century residence that combines architectural preservation with contemporary art exhibition spaces across multiple floors.
Ceferino Carnacini built the house in 1914 to his own eclectic design, mixing Norman and picturesque elements, and lived there for fifty years. The municipality took over the property in 2007, the year the museum opened on 20 July, and from 2011 to 2013 restored the facade and ornamentation under mayor Ricardo Ivoskus and his successor Gabriel Katopodis.
The museum's walls feature sixteen original murals depicting landscapes from San Juan, Mar del Plata, Córdoba, Río Negro, and Venice, showcasing regional artistic traditions of the early 1900s.
Located at Pueyrredón 2720, the museum operates Tuesday through Friday from 10 am to 8 pm and Saturdays from 2 pm to 7 pm, accessible via bus lines 78, 127, 314, and 343.
The habitable basement, laid out like the floor above, exists because the site once held brick kilns whose pits were too large to fill, so Carnacini built downward instead. The original etching press he used still stands in the upper-floor atelier.
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