Museum of Natural Sciences specialized in Medical Zoology

Vélez Sársfield 563
Tel. 303-1806 - extension 226
Schedule visit by telephone

This Museum is under the authority of the A.N.L.I.S. "Dr Carlos G. Malbrán" Administration of the National Institute for the Production of Biological Products, and is devoted in particular to ophidians and spiders, their habits and the dangers they pose when they are poisonous.
A map of the country is divided into areas depicting the geographical distribution of the different types of snakes (rattle snakes, coral snakes, small "yararás " (pit vipers), large "yararás " or pit vipers, snub-nosed yararás, yararacas, caisacas and yararacasús). Another graph describes how one should behave in the presence of a snake. Amongst the dangerous snakes listed are the coral snakes (elapids), pit snakes and rattle snakes (crotalidae), and amongst the harmless snakes, false coral snakes, false pit snakes or "yararás" and other snakes (small snakes and Argentine boas) exhibited in glass cases.
There are four "terrariums" containing live samples of the poisonous specimens existing in large numbers in our country. Guided tours offer the possibility of appreciating how snakes are dealt with in captivity, how they are held, how poison is extracted, etc. Other cases exhibit invertebrates (scolopendrids, spiders, scorpions), fish, amphibians (batrachians) and poisonous snakes from other parts of the world.