Film Museum "Pablo Ducros Hicken" — Attraction in Autonomous City of Buenos Aires

The Museum of Cinema of the City of Buenos Aires was created on October 1, 1971 from the film collection donated by the widow of researcher and collector Pablo C. Ducrós Hicken. In its founding charter, it defines the central objectives that remain to this day: exhibit and preserve the objects that are part of its heritage and increase the collection dedicated to Argentine cinema. In this way, the elements that the Museum of Cinema preserves are not only films, but also cameras, projectors, moviolas and other elements of cinematographic technique, which were added -from their beginnings- to pieces of costumes and sets, models, props, scripts, filming plans, production reports, newsletters, photographs, advertisements and reviews.

From its foundation until 1976, the first director of the Museum was the critic and researcher Jorge Miguel Couselo, who was succeeded by the critic Rolando Fustiñana (Roland), founder of the Cinemateca Argentina. Later, other directors were the critic and filmmaker Guillermo Fernández Jurado, the critic and researcher José María Poirier Lalanne and the documentary maker David Blaustein. Since 2008, its director is the researcher and specialist in audiovisual preservation Paula Félix-Didier.

The museum previously functioned in six venues: the General San Martín Municipal Theater, the former Di Tella Institute, the Recoleta Cultural Center, the Sarmiento building at 2500, Defensa 1220, the old building of the textile company Piccaluga, at Feijóo 525, until that on August 1, 2011, the historic building of La Boca neighborhood in Caffarena 51, part of the former Italo Argentina Electricity Company built in 1916, arrived at its current location.

To this headquarters was added a few blocks, in 2013, another administrative technical headquarters -in Minister Brin 615-, which contains the deposits of film material and archives in general as well as the technical areas of cineteca, conservation and cataloging of scripts and...

Pequeño, gran Museo...

Realmente es una de las atracciones "ocultas" que no se promocionan tanto en Buenos Aires y debería llegar a todos (no solo niños de colegios, o extranjeros que pululan por La Boca, sino adultos Porteños y Bonaerenses, también).

Dentro del museo, puedes observar desde antiguos afiches, vestuarios, guiones, crudos originales, hasta modernas salas acondicionadas con las diferentes épocas del cine Nacional y hasta en el segundo piso poseen toda una gran exhibición dedicado a las películas animadas, justamente de invención Argentina allí por los años veinte.

El museo es austero, de tamaño mediano, que leyendo las historias, no tardarás mas de dos horas y media como máximo en recorrerle, pero es muy interesante.

Se encuentra en muy buen estado de mantenimiento, limpio, con baños y la entrada es muy popular y accesible.

Lo puedes hallar exactamente al lado de la Usina del Arte (es parte del mismo edificio) y si consigues, puedes estacionar gratuitamente a la vuelta del museo, debajo de la autopista (pero sólo si consigues, un día que en la Usina no haya tanta gente).

Me parece una visita más que interesante e imperdible para los que somos afines o amantes del Cine, en cualquiera de sus géneros o nacionalidades.

Recomiendo muchísimo, hacerse un par de horas para visitarle y deleitarse de historia sobre el séptimo...

I loved the exhibition and the introduction to it given by Edgar. Clearly the people working here have love and passion for what they do. If I would live here I would come frequently to the screenings of the historic movies. The part about Wilenski's artist photographies will nurture and inspire anyone interested in photography, light and editing. I absolutely recommend...