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Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences
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Spanish:
Museo Argentino De Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”
Date:
1823 - present
Areas Of Involvement:
science
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Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences

museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Also known as: Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”(Show More)
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History

Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences, 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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