La Plata Museum
Natural history museum in La Plata, Argentina / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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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 [es] |
Website | Official website |
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The building, 135 meters (443 feet) long, today houses three 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.[1] Around 400,000 visitors (8% of whom are from outside Argentina) pass through its doors yearly, including a thousand visiting researchers.