Museum of Art & Memory, La Plata

Founded in 2002 by the Provincial Commision for Memory (CPM) of Buenos Aires Province, this space seeks to be a place of education and reflection through the “transformative power of art”. Its location is in a converted house about an 8 minute drive from Casa de los Conejos, closer to the centre of the city of La Plata, and with no spatial connection to the dictatorship.

 

Its exhibits often link violence during the dictatorship with issues in the present day, a task that would be more difficult to do in former detention sites. This includes theatre and memory meetings with theatre companies throughout the country, and in Uruguay, and Chile.

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During my visit in June 2025, I was particularly impressed with the way this museum displayed archived materials, especially information that the government held on activists, in an artistic way. Its role as a non-spatial museum allowed it artistic license to memorialize these archives in a way that a spatial museum focused on preservation and originality could not.