Museum of Natural Sciences

Located at the intersection of Av. España 400 North and Maipú St. Old railway station
Tel. 0264-426774
Open Mondays through Saturdays from 8:30 to 12:30a.m. and from 3 to 7:30p.m.

This museum comprises six exhibition rooms, a central hall and an open-air exhibition space. It harbors a collection of plaster replicas of Ischigualasto. This institution is under the authority of the National University of San Juan and contains a wide assortment of exhibits related to indigenous zoology and biology, mineralogy and paleontology. The museum was founded in 1963 and has been operating in these premises for the past years. Noteworthy exhibits include a head and other fossil remains of a Dicynodont from Ischigualasto and a skull and the jaws of a reptile belonging to the Cynodont group of the genus Exacretodon.

San Juan
San Juan, capital of the province of San Juan, was shaken by an earthquake in 1944 and was rebuilt on a modern design with a large number of parks and promenades. It lies 1,050km. away from the city of Buenos Aires along national routes No.7 (up to the city of San Luis) and 147. Another alternative is to travel up to Mendoza and then take route No.40 up to San Juan. The city harbors the natal homes of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento and Fray Justo Santa María de Oro. The province has important tourist attractions, the most traditional of which is known as the Valle de la Luna (Moon Valley).