Completed in 1889 in the newly founded provincial capital of La Plata, some 50km from Buenos Aires, the Museo de Ciencias Naturales was created to foster a knowledge of evolution. The museum preserves the musty feel of a 19th century natural history museum in many of its rooms. Here's the museum's website, with information on hours and admission. Argentina, especially Patagonia, is rich with dinosaur fossils which are well-represented at the museum. My favorites, however, were the skeletons of extinct South American mammals like the Glyptodonts, pictured above, which were massive, armadillo-like creatures which roamed the ancient pampa.
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Impresionantes imágenes. Este es un lugar que pocos turistas visitan, pero que vale la pena visitar (como también el Museo de La Plata). Gracias por mostrarlo, Thomas.
I NEED to go visit this museum.
I love these types of museums, and I must say I was disappointed by the Natural History Museum in BsAs.
The building itself is wonderful, with bronze spider web grilles, carved stone owls, and snails in wrought iron going up the stairs- but the exhibits have been "modernized" with lots of bright colored silkscreened photoshop images and video loops replacing real things.
Me, I prefer actual bones, stones, and dead insects to super graphics any day.
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