The Museo Casa de Yrurtia is located on a quiet street in Belgrano. I stumbled upon it the other day and, as admission was just a peso, I walked in. The museum is dedicated to Argentine sculptor Rogelio Yrurtia [1879-1950], author of a number of monuments scattered around the city. The museum, his former house, is a pleasant, Spanish-style house [unusual in the city] and is totally stuffed with sculpture, drawings, maquettes and random bric-a-brac from his life. I was taken by these over-sized statues crammed into tiny rooms. They seemed so bizarrely out of place.
Photography isn't allowed in the museum rooms, though god knows why. The rooms aren't guarded so I made sure to cough loudly each time I took a picture so that the guard in the lobby wouldn't hear the shutter.
One of the more amusing pieces in the museum is a sketch by Picasso dated 1904 which is displayed along side a letter from Picasso playfully requesting payment for said drawing.
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