After having reopened its doors a few days ago, the National Museum of the Cabildo of Buenos Aires and the May Revolution is preparing to premiere two new exhibitions designed on its return.

"Fragments underground" and "Rare happiness of the times" are the titles of the exhibitions that will begin on Thursday 28 October from 16. The first of them, which will be curated by archaeologist Néstor Zubeldía and the exhibition design team of the National Directorate of Museums (by Valeria Keller), aims to make visible the different stages of the excavation work carried out in the South Patio of the Cabildo.

Within that context, some of the 2000 cultural objects found so far, among which are the foundations of the old Cabildo de 1725. In this case, Making visible does not only consist in “making one see” but in understanding, through fragments, how was everyday life in the past.

Meanwhile, "Rare happiness of the times" is a proposal by the artist Ariel Cusnir, under the curatorship of Bárbara Golubicki. In this case, the role of the graphic press in the English invasions and the struggles for independence is taken as a starting point and is, at once, an invitation to reflect on the construction of the discourses and images of the past.

The exhibition proposes friendly dialogues between Cusnir's drawings and watercolors and a selection of objects from the Museum's collection. The result is a lattice in which file, storytelling and imagination, which includes the "big names" and their faces, but also to the anonymous actors and their traces in history. This is one of the 60 winning projects of the edition 2020 of the Activar Patrimonio scholarship program of the Secretariat of Cultural Heritage.

It is worth remembering that the Cabildo reopened its doors on Tuesday, after a series of intensive work to enhance. The restoration of the Museum included the complete repair and painting of the façade, the counter façade, the ceilings and attached walls.

The colonial patio and the dome were also recovered and put into value.. The historic bell was fitted out. The welcome area was restructured with accessibility criteria that consider the different audiences that attend the Museum.

On the other hand, the renovation of the Cabildo contemplates the daily use of the building as a space for lunch, rest or simply take a break in the historic center of the city.

The National Museum of the Cabildo of Buenos Aires and the May Revolution, located in Bolívar 65, can be visited on Wednesdays, Thursday and Friday 10.30 a 16.30 and on Saturdays and Sundays 10.30 a 17.30.