The Natural Science museum in Buenos Aires [or MACN] is located in Parque Centenario which is between Caballito and Villa Crespo, roughly in the geographic center of Capital Federal. It shouldn't be confused with the better known [and better] natural science museum in La Plata [see pictures here and here]. The La Plata museum is worth the day-trip but the museum in Buenos Aires is an interesting place if you've run out of other things to see.
Photographically these types of museums are a nearly perfect subject; exotic, colorful, accessible, immobile and dramatically lit. Perhaps that's why these sorts of diorama photos, I'm thinking of Sugimoto's Dioramas, have become such a cliche. Anyway, I've never made any claims to originality with this blogs' photos, so without further ado, here's some more photos:
See also my post on the museum from last year.
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and if you check over the doors, there are some metallic scultpures representing spiders. The nice thing is that the model were real spiders that can be found in Argentina.
The bad detail: their heads are upside, which is the opposite to the spiders' resting position on their webs.
And... in one of the rooms, near the secondary entrance, on Av. Ángel Gallardo, there is a "sea cucumber" called "holoturoideo". It in a jar and it always made me think that it could be taken for Napoleon's sword and, maybe, become into a MACN's main attraction.
I heard that a legend alike was created in the USA some time ago (not with an animal, but with a human "holoturoideo" they had in a Museum)and that France contested the hypothesis it could be the real Napoleon's... or, maybe we could only claim to have Luis Philippe d'Orléans's...
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