On Jujuy's plaza, the colonnaded cabildo (council building) houses the Museo Histórico Policial. Police museums in Argentina are weird things, with grisly crime photos, indiscriminate homages to authority and the odd quirky gem – in this instance it's the discovery that in 1876 you could expect a five-peso fine if you wanted carnal knowledge of a llama.
Museo Histórico Policial
Jujuy
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