Museo Genaro Perez

A house of culture, headquarters of the collection of paintings of the Municipality of Córdoba and of the contemporary artistic expressions of our city.

The Municipal Museum of Fine Arts Dr. Genaro Pérez is located in one of the houses of greater architectural and historical value of the city, on the only original avenue of the original grid. It was built between 1905 and 1910, as a family home for Don Félix Garzón, who was governor of Córdoba. Its inauguration was a social event for the time, with the presence of the then President of the Nation Dr. Roque Sáenz Peña.

The Genaro Pérez Museum was created in 1943, being its main promoter and first director Roberto Viola.

In its beginnings it worked in Caseros Street, its collection was formed with works of the Salons that were beginning to be realized and donations of Roberto Viola and other local artists.

Today, it hoards a collection of 1000 works that, systematically increased, ensures a journey that is more and more finished by almost two centuries of Argentine art.

The Museum looks for new ways of approaching the collection to the public, making thematic samples that focus on the exhibition mode from different perspectives. There are also temporary exhibition halls where new generations find their place. Visiting the museum we can appreciate the evolution of the plastic both locally and nationally, which tells us about the transformations of life and tastes.

The collection ranges from the precursors of the 19th century (representatives of the translation of the colonial past to the republic strongly influenced by European aesthetics and thought) as well as the works belonging to the periods of modernity and the avant-gardes (both periods interpreted by the next generation with a clearly Argentinean imprint) to contemporary artists, who with the experimentation of techniques and languages modify the concepts of the beautiful and true breaking the limits of the field of visual arts.

Outstanding in the collection are works by Prilidiano Pueyrredón, Genaro Pérez, Emilio Caraffa, Lino Enea Spilimbergo, Raúl Soldi, Enrique Policastro, Miguel Carlos Victorica, Antonio Berni, José Malanca, Octavio Pinto, Antonio Seguí, Carlos Alonso and Marcelo Bonevardi, Miguel Ángel Budini, Carlos Peiteado, Horacio Juárez and Lucio Fontana.