Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences

Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences

Spanish  Museo Argentino De Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia” 

      national museum (founded 1823) in Buenos Aires. It has zoological, botanical, and geological departments.

      The museum has about 2,000,000 exhibits and a library of more than 500,000 volumes. Areas of expertise include archaeology, botany, ecology, entomology, hydrobiology, mineralogy, paleontology, and zoology.

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