Evita Museum

The Evita Peron  museum is on the west side of Palermo on Lafinur 2988 C.A. de Buenos Aires. Housed in the museum you will find scores of photos of Eva with her family. Her mom was Juana Ibarguren and later married Juan Duarte, Eva's dad. Eva Peron was born a Duarte  lived with that surname for several years before she married Juan Peron. I could not help but notice that her mom, dad and her husband shared a similar first name.

Maria Eva Duarte was born in Argentina in 1919. When she was seven years old, her father died, and she, along with her mothers and sisters, had to work as cooks for a rich family in order to survive. In 1933, when she had an acting part in the play "Student's Arise", she decided that she was going to be an actress. So, she went to Buenos Aires to find acting jobs, which was very difficult. She worked as a model at times and got parts in a few plays, but it was hard to have enough food and money to live on.

 Me chilling in Eva Peron's day room taking it all in.





As First Lady, Argentinians call her by her more informal name, Evita, she helped out the poor and the country as much as she could. She organized the Peronista party's women's branch, showing her support of women's rights. She also created the Eva Peron Foundation, which helped people get money, housing, and clothing. Mostly, she helped out the poor, whom she called "los descamisados," meaning "the shirtless ones," by establishing orphanages for children. After years of selfless work to ensure the poor and women rights were respect. Sorrowfully, she suffered from cancer and died on July 26, 1952.