Museo Casa de Ricardo Rojas

The house of Charcas Street 2837 was the home of the outstanding educator and man of letters Ricardo Rojas from 1929 until his death in 1957. Creator of the first chair of Argentine Literature in the University, poet, essayist and teacher with his own doctrine, his writings, which include essays, scholarly works, monographs, plays and poems, are nourished in the dialogue of the European with the American and in particular with the indigenous America. Attending to his "Euríndica" conception, Rojas inspired the construction of this residence, work of the architect Ángel Guido.

After the death of the writer, the house, with all its material and intellectual heritage, was transferred to the State by his widow, Julieta Quinteros de Rojas, thus fulfilling the desire of the husband to bequeath it for museum and library, so that the generations future will find in it a field for the study and debate of ideas. The House of Ricardo Rojas was integrated into the Argentine national museums on April 28, 1958 and was declared a National Historical Monument on May 29 of that same year.

The Museum House of Ricardo Rojas - Research Institute offers an outstanding building for its original architecture and a diverse and valuable heritage: furniture, works of art, archaeological pieces, personal objects and relics. The Library, constituted by more than 20,000 volumes, is singular and rich in Argentine, Spanish-American and Spanish literatures, since Ricardo Rojas maintained fluid communication and exchange with writers, critics and teachers from different countries. The Documentary Archive is made up of approximately 100,000 documents: the manuscript version of his books, proofs of print, unpublished works, photographs and an extensive correspondence that, as a whole, reflect and document the first half of the 20th century.