Cultural Patrimony
Subterráneos de Buenos Aires carries out the important task of preserving the artistic work disseminated throughout the whole network. More than 400 art pieces are located in the subway circuit, constituing a true museum throughout its itinerary.
This concern is extended to the construction stages, such is the case of the palaeontologic findings that occurred during the excavation of Line B, which are now exposed in the brand-new Tronador station.
In 1934 Buenos Aires inaugurates the Line C, its third subway line. With it, the first artistic works of the network.
Cultural stations
From its conception, the new stations are projected as spaces of preservation and diffusion of the City’s cultural and historical patrimony. The goal is to lend a service to the user, providing him or her with fine representations of our culture.
Subterráneos de Buenos Aires is in charge of the cultural activities carried out in the Line D’s stations Juramento, Congreso de Tucumán and Olleros. These stations can be visited in order to appreciate the several expositions and stands destined to rotary exhibitions coming from the City’s Museums, as well as the Nation’s, educative institutions and other civil society organizations.
The objective of the museum-stations is to get the population acquainted with the huge cultural and historical patrimony that the City owns, thus turning the subway network, a massive transport medium, into an ideal diffusion agent. The lending of the facilities is absolutely free for the museum and institutions that wish to exhibit their activities or part of the historical or cultural patrimony they treasure.
Archeological Findings
From the very beginning of the subway’s construction, archeological findings have been made. In 1930, mammut and mastodon remains were found in the excavations made for Line B, under Av. Corrientes. Furthermore, glyptodont remains have been found in the excavations of Line D’s extension, as well as in the current Line B excavation. The remains found in Line D are exhibited in the Juramento station of that line. The 3 glyptodonts found in Line B are exhibited in Tronador station. All of the findings were supervised by the universities La Plata (UNLP) and Buenos Aires (UBA).
