Museum sights in Central Argentina
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Museo Histórico General San Martín
Museo Histórico General San Martín honors José de San Martín, the general who liberated Argentina from the Spanish and whose name graces parks, squares and streets everywhere in Argentina; the Libertador is especially dear to Mendoza, where he resided with his family and recruited and trained his army to cross into Chile. The museum is in a small arcade just off Av San Martín.
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Museo Fundacional
Mendoza’s Museo Fundacional protects excavations of the colonial cabildo (town council), destroyed by an earthquake in 1861. At that time, the city’s geographical focus shifted west and south to its present location. A series of small dioramas depicts Mendoza’s history, working through all of human evolution as if the city of Mendoza were the climax (maybe it was).
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Museo Casa de Ernesto Che Guevara
In the 1930s, the family of youthful Ernesto Guevara moved here because a doctor recommended the dry climate for his asthma. Villa Beatriz was recently purchased by the city and restored as this museum. Its cozy interior is now adorned with a photographic display of Che’s life, and a couple of huge photos commemorating a recent visit from Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez.
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Museo El Hombre y La Naturaleza
The now-defunct Estación Belgrano (train station) has been recycled into the Centro de Difusión Cultural Eva Perón, a cultural center that includes the anthropological museum, Museo El Hombre y La Naturaleza, a combination museum/gift shop showcasing weavings and pottery finds from the region.
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Museo de Vino Santiago Graffigna
Museo de Vino Santiago Graffigna is a wine museum well worth a visit. It also has a wine bar where you can taste many of San Juan’s best wines. Take bus 12A from in front of the tourist office on Sarmiento (AR$1.50, 15 minutes) and ask the driver to tell you when to get off.
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Parque Provincial Ischigualasto Museum
The park's Parque Provincial Ischigualasto Museum displays a variety of fossils, including the carnivorous dinosaur Herrerasaurus (not unlike Tyrannosaurus Rex), the Eoraptor lunensis (the oldest-known predatory dinosaur) and good dioramas of the park's paleoenvironments.
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Museo Popular Callejero
Museo Popular Callejero is an innovative sidewalk museum. It consists of a series of encased streetside dioramas with odd clay sculptures depicting changes in one of Mendoza’s major avenues since its 1830 creation in a dry watercourse.
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Museo Histórico Nacional del Virrey Liniers
Beside the Iglseia Parraquial Nuestra Señora de la Merced is the Museo Histórico Nacional del Virrey Liniers is named after former resident Virrey Liniers, one of the last officials to occupy the post of Viceroy of the River Plate.
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Miniature Train Museum
A few blocks from Hotel Eden is a Miniature Train Museum, a strangely captivating museum devoted to, you guessed it, very small trains. From the museum, follow signs to El Chorito, a lookout with spectacular views out over the Sierras Chicas.
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Museo de Ciencias Naturales
The most interesting specimen at the Museo de Ciencias Naturales is the skeleton of the dinosaur Herrerasaurus from Ischigualasto, though there are plenty of provincial minerals, fossils and other exhibits to mull over.
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Museo Provincial de Historia Natural
The Museo Provincial de Historia Natural has a taxidermy collection featuring birds of the pampas. There are also some live snakes and a bit about local dinosaur fossil discoveries.
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Museo Las Bóvedas
A kilometer north of the highway junction in Uspallata, a signed lateral leads to ruins and a museum at the Museo Las Bóvedas, a smelting site since pre-Columbian times.
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