San José School Museum

Azcuénaga 158
Tel. 4951-4303
Open Mondays through Fridays from 8 a.m. to 12 a.m.
Holidays coincide with school vacations

Ever since the school was founded in 1858, the religious fathers and brothers involved in different scientific subjects began to assemble small collections of animals with the co-operation of two expert naturalists, Germán Burmeister and Carlos Berg. This explains the birth of this museum of Natural Sciences that was inaugurated in 1914.
The whole zoological scale is present in this museum, with outstanding collections of butterflies, insects and spiders. There are also wonderful corals and molluscs, and approximately one thousand birds, most of which are Argentine species.
Other important exhibits include amphibians, batrachians, crustaceans and reptiles (all sorts of snakes, crocodiles, alligators and lizards); web-footed birds (penguins, geese, seagulls); gallinaceans (partridges, peacocks); climbers (parrots, homed owls, bam-owls); ratites (ñandú or American ostriches); as well as condors, great anteaters, pumas, giant armadillos, albatrosses, and a "varo" (a mammal from the island of Madagascar a sacred animal and sun worshipper).