La Plata Museum
The La Plata Museum (Spanish: Museo de La Plata) is a natural history museum in La Plata, Argentina. It is part of the Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo (Natural Sciences School) of the National University of La Plata.
The neoclassical facade of the museum | |
| Established | 1888 |
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| Location | La Plata, Argentina |
| Coordinates | 34°54′32″S 57°56′07″W |
| Visitors | 400,000 |
| Director | Analía Lanteri |
| Website | Official website |
The building, 135 meters (443 feet) long, today houses 3 million fossils and relics (including 44,000 botanical items), an amphitheatre opened in 1992, and a 58,000-volume library, serving over 400 university researchers. Around 400,000 visitors (8% of whom are from outside Argentina) pass through its doors yearly, including a thousand visiting researchers.
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