Regional Municipal Museum of the Southwest of Chaco

General San Martín Ave. 263
Tel. 03731-421533
Open Wednesdays through Sundays from 9 to 12 a.m.
and from 4 to 7.30 p.m.

This is a Historial museum as well as a museum of natural sciences. Its six halls exhibit fossil remains from the Tertiary and Quaternary Periods and pre and post-Colunmbian pottery. It also has halls devoted to paleontology and archaeology in which lithic objects are exhibited in addition to plaster replicas of the evolution of man. In the sector devoted to history there is documentation concerning the plotting of boundaries between Chaco and Santiago del Estero as well as the "Ernesto Castellani" collection. The museum occupies a building dating from 1929 and also houses early 20th century furniture.

Charata
Se encuentra a 380 kilómetros de la ciudad de Resistencia y se llega desde la capital provincial por la ruta nacionales N° 16 y luego por la provincial 94.