Film Museum "Pablo Ducros Hicken"

Suvendu Das

a year ago

The Museum of Cinema of the City of Buenos Aires was created on October 1, 1971 from the film collection donated by the widow of researcher and collector Pablo C. Ducrós Hicken. In its founding charter, it defines the central objectives that remain to this day: exhibit and preserve the objects that are part of its heritage and increase the collection dedicated to Argentine cinema. In this way, the elements that the Museum of Cinema preserves are not only films, but also cameras, projectors, moviolas and other elements of cinematographic technique, which were added -from their beginnings- to pieces of costumes and sets, models, props, scripts, filming plans, production reports, newsletters, photographs, advertisements and reviews. From its foundation until 1976, the first director of the Museum was the critic and researcher Jorge Miguel Couselo, who was succeeded by the critic Rolando Fustiñana (Roland), founder of the Cinemateca Argentina. Later, other directors were the critic and filmmaker Guillermo Fernández Jurado, the critic and researcher José María Poirier Lalanne and the documentary maker David Blaustein. Since 2008, its director is the researcher and specialist in audiovisual preservation Paula Félix-Didier. The museum previously functioned in six venues: the General San Martín Municipal Theater, the former Di Tella Institute, the Recoleta Cultural Center, the Sarmiento building at 2500, Defensa 1220, the old building of the textile company Piccaluga, at Feijóo 525, until that on August 1, 2011, the historic building of La Boca neighborhood in Caffarena 51, part of the former Italo Argentina Electricity Company built in 1916, arrived at its current location. To this headquarters was added a few blocks, in 2013, another administrative technical headquarters -in Minister Brin 615-, which contains the deposits of film material and archives in general as well as the technical areas of cineteca, conservation and cataloging of scripts and photographs .

G Y

a year ago

Small but okay

Lau Castro

2 months ago

Si bien su ubicación no es de tan fácil acceso es un museo interesante para visitar. Los miércoles la entrada es libre y gratuita, de todas formas durante la semana cuesta $50. Realizan visitas guiadas y exposiciones temáticas muy interesantes!

Marta Quesada Vaquero

2 weeks ago

La sede está muy bien y los guías son súper amables. Se lo recomiendo a todo aquel que ame al cine desde sus inicios.

Sandra Sotoca

3 months ago

Muy lindo Museo sobre cine. Hay una gran variedad de objetos, afiches e indumentaria usada en distintas películas argentinas. Es chico, se recorre bastante rápido. Muy amables los empleados, acompañé a mi hijo para hacer un Trabajo práctico y nos ayudaron mucho. Baños limpios, hay rampa de acceso para personas con discapacidad motriz. Está pegado a la Usina del arte. No tiene estacionamiento propio.