Provincial Folkloric Museum

24 de Septiembre 565
Tel. 081-218250
Open Mondays trough Fridays from 9 to 12a.m. and from 3 to 8p.m.; Saturday from 9:30 to 12:30a.m. and from 5:50 to 8:30p.m.

This museum functions in a large old colonial house that belonged to the Colombres Thames family. It is built of large bricks laid on clay, has quebracho beams, Spanish tiles, rough whitewashed plaster walls, and three practically identical openings on the front - a door and two windows - with very simple railings. It houses an important collection of silverwork from Peru including belts with fancy buckles, spurs, mates and bombillas, knife sheaths and saddle adornments. Amongst the objects on exhibition there are articles woven in wool obtained from llamas, vicuñas, alpacas, and sheep including carpets, rugs, tapestries and the traditional ponchos.
There is an area devoted to musical instruments such as guitars, charangos, violins, harps, quenas and sikus (Indian reed flutes), erques and cajas and bombos (small and large drums). There is also a reproduction of a northern rancho (hut) with all its typical characteristics. The Handicraft Market.

San Miguel de Tucumán
The city of San Miguel de Tucumán, capital of the province, is located 1,303km. away from the Capital City, on national route No. 9, and 447m. above sea level. It is the most important industrial and commercial city in the Argentine Northwest, and has several touristic attractions in the surroundings, such as Villa Nogués, cerro San Javier and El Cadillal dam.