"Bernardino Rivadavia" Museum of Natural Sciences

Ángel Gallardo 490
Tel. 4932-1154
Open Mondays through Sundays from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Does not close on holidays

This Museum is acknowledged as one of the most important in Latin America. It was created by Bernardino Rivadavia on July 2 7, 1812, and throughout its long existence it has been known under different names: Museum of the Country, Public Museum, National Museum of Buenos Aires, Museum of Natural History, and Argentine Museum of natural Sciences and the name of its creator. Species belonging to current and past Argentine natural wealth are preserved and exhibited in its halls for educational and cultural purposes. Fossil remains of extinct species have been reconstructed. Birds, mammals, present day reptiles, and the dioramas that show their natural habitat, allow visitors to travel mentally to different regions of our vast territory.
Its sections include one devoted to Meteorites, with exhibits like "El Toba", a meteorite weighing over 4 tons found in the Province of Chaco; and other sections devoted to mineralogy, ichthyology and malacology (fish, winkles and marine invertebrates), Antarctica, phytogeography, botany, entomology, ornithology, herpetology, and osteology (with the skeleton of "Dalia", the elephant, who lived for many years in the local zoo). The "Florentino Ameghino " room exhibits part of the anthropological work carried out by this great Argentine scientist, and the hall of Paleontology - that harbors Ameghino´s collection - provides a view of the remains of gigantic reptiles from Earth´s geological past, and skeletons of large mammals from the fauna of the Pampas, together with fossil invertebrates and plants.
In the Argentine Antarctic Institute Room, the fauna, flora, fossils and rocks of the white continent are exhibited. Dioramas represent cormorants, seagulls, penguins, cachalots and invertebrates (these are presented in acrylic).