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The Isaac Fernández Blanco Hispanoamerican Museum is located in the City of Buenos Aires, located in the old Noel Palace (Suipacha 1422) of the Retiro neighborhood. Its collection is based on artistic and decorative objects from South America from the period of colonial domination to the independent era.
The museum began its activity during the decade of 1910, in the mansion where Isaac Fernández Blanco resided with his family. It was the first private museum of Argentina, with a patrimony formed by the private collection that Fernandez Blanco had conformed during several decades. The patrimony began to be extended with donations of several families of the Buenosairean aristocracy that wanted to locate their familiar objects of great value in a prestigious place.
In September 1921 Isaac Fernandez Blanco moved with his family to another place, turning his mansion into a permanent museum. In 1922 he donated the museum to the Municipality of the City, and it was inaugurated on May 25 of that year as a municipal museum. However, Fernández Blanco continued, until his death in 1928, buying and donating objects to increase the museum’s heritage. In 1947 the collection was moved to the Noel Palace, adding to the collection of the Colonial Museum that existed in the building and to the collection of a dissolved municipal museum.
In 1963 the heritage of the museum was increased thanks to the donation of 750 pieces by Celina González Garaño. To these works of American colonial art was added another great donation from his sister-in-law who donated his collection of Jesuit-Guaraní art, part of it in 1972 and the rest after his death in 1989. But the patrimony also grew thanks to purchases carried out by the museum: for example after the modifications that the different convents and catholic churches had to do after the Second Vatican Council, much of its artistic heritage was bought by this museum.
It is an exponent of the “neo-colonial” movement in Argentina. Its rooms provide an overview of the South American cultural fields. Its gardens are of Spanish inspiration.
It consists of silverware, imagery and Ibero-American furniture from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Documents, books, religious ornaments, engravings, ceramics, civilian clothing and feminine accessories. It also highlights its important collection of remarkable musical instruments.
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