The Borges Cultural Center, the traditional porteño enclosure dedicated to art and culture, will once again depend on the Ministry of Culture, as reported by Tristán Bauer, wallet holder.

Bauer confirmó el traspaso “después de una importante y cordial negociación con la Fundación para las Artes”, that since 1995 manages the space located on Viamonte street 525.

In this way, the Borges Cultural Center, that houses four auditoriums, Exhibition halls, workshop area, spaces for shows, seminars and conferences in more than 10.000 square meters that compose it, returns to the Ministry of Culture, que anunció a través de un comunicado de prensa que “tiene previsto desarrollar importantes proyectos: following its historical tradition, performing a cultural and aesthetic enhancement, e incluyendo una profunda dimensión federal”.

Now the National Museum of Fine Arts will be in charge of a space dedicated to remembering its origins, since its first headquarters functioned there; another space will be destined to honor, permanently, to the great Argentine writer who gives its name to the Cultural Center.

At the same time, anunciaron que “se concretará el postergado traslado del Museo Nacional de Arte Oriental, which will be renovated and will have its own place, acorde a su relevancia y dedicado al arte oriental contemporáneo”.

Another of the initiatives that will be developed in a first stage includes the curatorship of the management of the Palais de Glace of another of the rooms, with exhibitions that bring contemporary perspectives on its collection, and there will be a space dedicated to promoting, promote and encourage the local handicrafts market in Argentina.

The Borges Cultural Center began to be built in 1891, in a work executed by the architects Francisco Seeber and Emilio Bunge, and it was always a space linked to art, so that, in 1896, the imposing Parisian-style building already housed the first headquarters of the National Museum of Fine Arts. In 1908, part of the building was sold to the Buenos Aires al Pacífico Railroad.

In the middle of the decade of the 40, Antonio Berni, Lino Spilimbergo, Juan Carlos Castagnino, Demetrio Urruchúa and Manuel Colmeiro made the impressive murals that today constitute an emblem on the dome and had to be restored twice.: the first in 1978, under the direction of Antonio Berni, and the second in 1991 by an Argentine-Mexican team led by Manuel Serrano Cabrera.

In 1989 was declared a National Historic Monument, but soon after it was delivered in concession to Galerías Pacífico S. A., that transformed it into a shopping center.