La Plata Museum
The La Plata Museum ( Spanish Museo de La Plata ) is one of the two major natural history museums in Argentina in La Plata . It is also a research institute.
The museum was created from the collections of the explorer of Patagonia Perito Moreno (1852-1919). Among other things, he collected fossils while surveying the border with Chile in the 1870s, especially from the specific tertiary mammalian fauna of Argentina, which made the country known in paleontology in the 19th century. The collections first came to the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia in Buenos Aires , the second major natural history museum in Argentina, but when the new capital La Plata of the Province of Buenos Aires was founded, they moved to the La Plata Museum, which opened in 1888. The first director was Moreno. In 1895 he appointed Santiago Roth head of the paleontological department of this museum. The Argentine-Swiss Roth contributed important fossil finds. In 1906 the museum was attached to the University of La Plata , where Roth became an adjunct professor.
A library is attached to the museum. In addition to natural history, the museum also houses ethnographic and archaeological collections.
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Coordinates: 34 ° 54 '32.48 " S , 57 ° 56" 7.63 " W.