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"José Evaristo Uriburu" Historical Museum Caseros
417 This institution forms part of the Museological Complex of the North and is located in a simple building erected during the second half of the 18th century on the street that was formerly known as Calle Real de San Francisco (nowadays called Caseros). It was bought by the Uriburu family in 1810 and has adobe walls and a roof made of reeds and curved tiles. Its most outstanding feature is the direct entrance from the street into the main courtyard. This seems to have been a common characteristic of homes in the city of Salta. Its 6 exhibition halls harbor documents and objects that belonged to General Juan Álvarez de Arenales and to Presidents José Evaristo Uriburu and José Félix Uriburu, as well as furniture, paintings and period costumes. There is a permanent exhibition of tradicional customes that portrays life in days gone by. The house was inhabited by the family until approximately 1920 which explains the presence of objects belonging to the 19th and 20th centuries. Amongst the pieces of furniture worthy of mentioning, there is a carved and shaped low wooden table from Upper Peru dating back to the 18th century; a carved wooden chair in the style of the Second Empire, France, c. 1870, complete with modern paintings that, according to tradition, were made by Martínez Reales, the painter who worked in the Cathedral of Salta, and a sofa for three in carved wood with fretwork and joined with two spread-winged eagles. Salta
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