Art Museum Visit

For my Culture and Civilization of Argentina class my professor took us to La Boca, a neighborhood in the southern part of Buenos Aires which is known as one of the first places of settlement for explorers coming to Argentina. The soccer stadium is also here so that draws a big crowd. 

We visited La Proa, La Boca's Modern Art Museum where our professor had an exhibit being shown. He is getting his Doctoral degree in silent film and made a short 10 minute film for this museum. It depicts the buildings of Buenos Aires within famous films and compares how the buildings are filmed throughout time. 

There was also an exhibit about the Obelisco, the quintessential monument that was built in 1936 to commemorate the foundation of the city. 

Here's a map of where the Obelisco is located in relation to the rest of Buenos Aires. Smack dab in the middle of the city! 

My favorite part of the museum was a section that looked at the future of Argentinian architecture. It displayed drawings that architects had drawn in 1910 predicting what Buenos Aires would look like in 2010. It was really cool being able to see how they imagined the future of their city to look like.

    

View from the top of the museum! 

There was a cute cafe on the top floor, so we all had a coffee after looking through the exhibits.

That night we had culture night at the Residencia! About 15 kids on our trip are staying there with a housemother, Edita who cooks them breakfast and dinner. She made us homemade empanadas! 

Edita's daughter, Pamela works for CEA and came over to give us a demonstration on the importance of Mate in the Argentine culture.

Aline (my roommate) drinking her mate. It tastes kind of like green tea, but the interesting thing about it is that you share the mate with everyone. Instead of everyone having their own separate cup, you pass the cup around to everyone and refill the hot water after each person has their share.

After culture night we went to JOBS, a bar type thing right near our apartment. It was three levels and had pool tables, ping pong and archery!