From Monday 15 In July the Casa del Historiador will inaugurate an exhibition dedicated to the emblematic children's magazines Billiken and Anteojito.

This exhibition will cover the last hundred years of education in Argentina, evoking memories of generations through emblematic children's publications and school materials.

"The school, from the kiosk to the house. Billiken and Anteojito magazines in dialogue with the maps and didactic sheets Estrada” is the name given to this exhibition and which coincides with the beginning of the winter holidays.. La exposición es el resultado del aporte patrimonial del Archivo Histórico de Buenos Aires, in collaboration with the Museum of Graphic Illustration.

In this way, The public will have the opportunity to establish a dialogue between the maps and prints from the map library of the Buenos Aires Library and Archive and the colorful reproductions of posters by Billiken and Anteojito.

Argentina represents a unique case in the correspondences between children's magazines and education. Billiken and Anteojito, born from the vision of Constancio C. Vigil and Manuel García Ferré, They had a new round trip with the school, reaching over half a million copies weekly.

These publications had popular and high-quality materials, who had the desire to educate Latin America.

The exhibition can be visited from Monday to Friday from 13 a 17 hours, in the recently renovated and recovered Estrada Family Dining Room of the Casa del Historiador, located on Bolívar street 466.

Regarding access, tickets are free. Pre-registration only. On the other hand, Saturday 20 July at 16 hours there will also be a special guided tour..

In addition to the opening of this exhibition, The universe of Billiken and Anteojito expands to other cultural proposals to do in the City. The Recoleta Cultural Center (Junín 1930) will hold a film series with the works of García Ferré.

In that context, on Sunday 14 July at 16 hours will screen “A Thousand Inventions and One Invention”, a film that has Anteojito as the protagonist.

On the other hand, the modern museum (Of. San Juan 350) recently inaugurated “Soñar a borbotones”, an artistic intervention by Alberto Passolini, who used the traditional light blue color of magazines for their national editions.