Historical Wax Museum

Iberlucea 1261
Tel. 4303-0563 / 4301-1497
Open Mondays through Fridays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Does not close on holidays

At the turn of the century, towards 1902, one of the first brick houses in the Vuelta de Rocha area was being built as a center for the Socialist Committee amongst whose members was Mr. Alfredo Palacios.
This large old house, located in a picturesque area permeated with historical significance, harbours the only wax museum in our country. This museum reflects a historical sequence of life in the Río de la Plata: the Conquest, the two foundations of Buenos Aires, the natives and marginal urban dwellers, their typical duels included. There are wax figures of famous members of the expeditions arriving at the Riachuelo de los Navíos, like Magellan, Solís, Cabot, Hernandarias, Mendoza and Garay.
Exhibits also include figures of southern tribal chiefs: Calfucurá, Namuncurá, Catriel and Pincen. Cockfighting scenes and marginal tango combine with farm hands or noteworthy persons such as Brown, Rosas, Jorge Garrido, Cecilio Madanes, Quinquela Martín and Juan de Dios Filiberto. Also included are La Boca volunteer fire-fighters (the first of their kind in the world), and the Liberti and Carbonari brothers. Different waxwork techniques may be observed, and there is a description of all the different possibilities of creating a wax figure, whether through imagination, replica or copy.