La-Plata-Museum

The La Plata Museum (Spanish Museo de La Plata ) is one of two major natural history museums of Argentina in La Plata. There is also research institute.

The museum originated from the collections of the explorer of Patagonia Perito Moreno ( 1852-1919 ). Among other things, he collected fossils in the surveying of the border with Chile in the 1870s, especially from the specific tertiary mammal fauna of Argentina, who introduced the country in palaeontology in the 19th century. First, the collections in the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia in Buenos Aires, the second major natural history museum in Argentina, with the establishment of the new capital city of La Plata the province of Buenos Aires they went, but to the 1888 newly opened La Plata Museum came. The first director was Moreno. He appointed Santiago Roth in 1895 as Head of the Palaeontological Department of the museum. The Argentina - Swiss Roth contributed important fossil finds. In 1906 the Museum of the University of La Plata was incorporated, where Roth was titular professor.

The museum is affiliated with a library. The museum houses next to natural history and ethnographic and archaeological collections.