Palaeontology hall
Patagonian dinosaurs.
Erico Valadares — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Elsapucai — Public domain · Simona.cerrato — CC BY-SA 3.0 · R heliz — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Claudio Elias — Public domain
The Bernardino Rivadavia Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences is one of the country's leading natural history museums. It traces its start to 1812, when Rivadavia asked the provinces to gather specimens for a natural history museum in the capital. After moving between several buildings, the first stage of its present home opened in 1937 at the edge of Parque Centenario, built specially for it, its facades carved with animals and birds. Its best-known rooms are the palaeontology hall, with skeleton models of Argentine dinosaurs such as Carnotaurus and Amargasaurus, and the hall of giant mammals that lived after the dinosaurs, like the giant ground sloth and the heavily armoured glyptodont. There are also rooms of minerals and meteorites that fell in Argentina, of birds, mammals and sea life. It opens Tuesday to Sunday from noon to seven, with entry first come, first served within capacity.
Patagonian dinosaurs.
A giant shell.
Fallen in Argentina.
Avenida Ángel Gallardo 470, Parque Centenario, Caballito
No, entry is first come, first served within capacity, Tuesday to Sunday.