The second edition of the Heritage Week of the City of Buenos Aires arrives

From November 10 to 16, Buenos Aires will celebrate its historical legacy with more than 100 institutions and special programming throughout the City. This year the First Open Archives Day is added, with visits to public and private heritage reserves.

With a large call—almost double the number of participating institutions than in the first edition—the November 10 to 16 the second will be carried out Heritage Week of the City of Buenos Aires. More than 100 spaces and institutions will be part of the programming that seeks to disseminate and value material and immaterial cultural assets, from architecture to Buenos Aires imaginaries and traditions.

This year the programming will include the novelty of the First Open Archives Day which will take place on Thursday, November 13, a special day dedicated to visiting the reserves of important public and private institutions such as the General Archive of the Nation, the Archive and Library of the City of Buenos Aires, the Center for Documentation and Research of Public Architecture (CeDIAP), the Legislature of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, the Espigas Studies Center and the IDA Foundation.

There will be proposals throughout the City to share Buenos Aires heritage, with a wide and varied platform of free activities. There will be seven days of talks, master workshops, extraordinary visits, unprecedented openings, unusual activities, shows, workshops, special classes, exhibitions and site specific, technical-professional visits, observations with historical telescopes, special tours for children and adults, access to specialists’ workplaces and visits to areas not usually open in heritage buildings, archaeological sites, museums and public spaces.

He José Hernández Popular Art Museum will celebrate Tradition Day with a special day that will allow you to learn about the archives of the National Folklore Academy that are part of the museum’s heritage. The activity will have a musical closing and live broadcast on LRA 339 FM Radio Nacional Folklorica. You will also be able to access the heritage archives belonging to other Buenos Aires museums such as the plastic arts reserves of the Quinquela Martinthe photographic collection of José Luis Perotta in the City Museumthe newspaper archive and the clothing collection of the Fernandez Blanco Museum in its two headquarters -Palacio Noel and Casa Fernández Blanco-, molds of original pieces for public sculptures in the Luis Perlotti Sculpture Museumold handwritten books in the library Larretafiles of the Sívori Museumand the Tesoros del Zorzal, the heritage reserve of the Gardel Museum.

Various activities have been organized as special activities for the second edition of Heritage Week. guided tours. Two circuits will be carried out through the neighborhoods of La Boca and Barracas: “Puentes del Riachuelo”, in which the public will be able to participate in a navigation with a view of the bridges of La Boca and a subsequent talk at the Barraca Peña site with the specialist Felipe Nogués about these iconic constructions of the South of Buenos Aires; and “Riachuelo Experience”, a guided tour between Vuelta de Rocha and Barraca Peña, which will include navigation of the Riachuelo while telling the social, environmental and economic history of the neighborhoods of La Boca and Barracas. Both are co-organized with Metropolitan Governance of the City Government, with prior registration through Citizen Participation. There will also be walks through neighborhoods such as La Boca, Caballito and Recoleta, to see emblematic spaces in historic centers such as the Centenario Park in Caballito and the Enrique Larreta Museum in Belgrano, and thematic tours Urban Traces of the Border in Monte Castro, Heritage of Avenida de Mayo y Typographic heritage, both for Montserrat, Football heritage in La Boca y Heritage Graphic Humor in Chacabuco Park.

Likewise, the public will be able to participate in an Archaeological Breakfast in which the new museography of Sitio Barraca Peña will be inaugurated, with the social history of the complex, in addition to exhibiting the collection of the Zen City wreck, and discover curiosities from the recent excavations next to the El Triunfo Warehouse, commented by urban archaeologists. The “Road to Riachuelo: memories of port and city” tour will also be carried out, with the Barraca Peña archaeological site as an active memory node. In the Casa del Historiador there will be workshops, talks and book presentations and conversations in the City Historical Library.

The Heritage Workshop School will open its doors to the public to learn about the restoration tasks carried out by the students and teachers, learn more about this training space in arts and crafts and learn about the programs with the teachers who will participate in the open classroom day and will also coordinate activities in the SBASE Workshop – Centenera Heritage Laboratory. Also during Heritage Week, teacher Casimiro Sejas López, teacher at the Workshop School and prominent personality of the City, will present his first book, which preserves and transmits ancestral knowledge of construction.

In addition, special guided tours will be organized to the clock and the viewpoint of the Monumental Tower, at the entrance to which and in the square surrounding it there will be a parade of vintage cars with a live jazz band. And the restoration tasks carried out by students and professionals from the Heritage Workshop School at the access door and on the balconies of the Monumental Tower will be presented to the public.

The public will be able to be part of an unprecedented visit to the Library of the Former Municipal Zoo in the current Ecopark, which contains several historical buildings on its premises, as well as works of art and decorative works and an Archive and Library that houses 130 years of books and documents. And in addition, the distinguished Mark Thurner—doctor in Anthropology and History and senior professor at the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of London and director of LAGLOBAL—will give an exclusive tour of the former zoo and a talk with attendees.

Heritage Week is organized by the Buenos Aires Ministry of Culture, following the mission outlined in Law 1227 of the City, which provides a legal and philosophical framework for the “research, preservation, safeguarding, protection, restoration, promotion, increase and transmission to future generations of the cultural heritage of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.” This second edition will take place between November 10, Tradition Day (190th anniversary of the birth of José Hernández), and November 16, International World Heritage Day. Within this framework, a call was again made to the public and private cultural institutions of the City that would like to participate since the best way to protect and increase identity is by sharing it.