Cinema Museum Pablo C. Ducros Hicken

La Boca

The Pablo Ducrós Hicken Film Museum, founded in 1971, is dedicated to the preservation, research and dissemination of Argentine cinematographic art.

It is currently located in the City of Buenos Aires, in the neighborhood of La Boca.

The heritage of the museum was donated by the widow of Ducrós Hicken, since the material belonged to the private collection of that Argentine essayist.

The most valuable of the Museum's collection are its 65,000 rolls of 16 and 35-millimeter films, which range from productions from the early years of silent films to the most modern ones.

In 2008 it was found in this file the only practically complete copy of one of the jewels of the silent period, the German film Metropolis: 26 minutes that were considered lost, and that have allowed to launch a remastered edition of that work by Fritz Lang.

The museum's collection is completed by 12,000 cans of the Argentinean film event, which covers 40 years of editions since 1938, and a similar number of cans from the news archive of Channel 9 of Buenos Aires.