The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires occupies a building that was constructed in 1870 as a drainage pumping station. Alejandro Bustillo adapted it, and the museum has been there since 1943. The article names no client. The infobox gives 25 December 1896 as established, while the text says the museum opened on December 25, 1895. Mario Roberto Álvarez designed the Neuquén branch, inaugurated in 2004.
The article gives no architectural style or materials. It has about 4,610 square meters of exhibit space across 34 halls, and the largest hall is 1,536 square meters. The Neuquén branch has about 2,500 square meters across four halls.
The museum moved to Plaza San Martín in 1909, into a pavilion from the 1889 Paris exhibition that was demolished in 1932. Jorge Romero Brest modernized it during his 1955 to 1964 tenure. It holds a collection spanning the Middle Ages to the 20th century. The article gives no hours.
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