Museo de la Inmigración

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Museum entrance, Museo de la Inmigración Argentina, 2020.
Museum exhibition

The Museo de la Inmigración is the national Argentine immigration museum in Buenos Aires . It is located in the building of the former Hotel de Inmigrantes .

The museum

The museum was founded in 1974 and focuses on the travel, arrival and integration of immigrants from Europe, Asia, Africa and South America in Argentina. The museum is run by the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero . The museum has been located in the Hotel de Inmigrantes since 2012 .

The museum is a cooperation partner of the German Emigration Center in Bremerhaven , as many Germans have emigrated to Argentina.

The Hotel de Inmigrantes

The Hotel de Inmigrantes building is a former residence for newcomers to Buenos Aires. In view of the increasing numbers of immigrants at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, the city built a central housing that was also one of the city's first concrete structures. Construction began in 1905. From opening in 1911 to closing in 1953, a total of around one million immigrants were housed there. The Hotel de Inmigrantes not only offered accommodation, but also food, job placement and courses (e.g. for the use of agricultural machinery or housekeeping).

Sea view of the museum, 2019.

See also

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Presentación (Museo de la Inmigración). In: Museos de la Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero. Retrieved December 9, 2019 (Spanish).
  2. ^ "Museo de la Inmigración" in Buenos Aires is a new cooperation partner . German Emigration Center, accessed November 17, 2019.

Coordinates: 34 ° 35 ′ 33.6 ″  S , 58 ° 22 ′ 5 ″  W.