Francisco Moreno Museum of Patagonia
The Francisco P. Moreno Museum of Patagonia is a natural history and cultural anthropology museum located in the Civic Center of Bariloche, Argentina.
History
The museum was inaugurated on March 17, 1940, as part of the unveiling of the Bariloche Civic Center, which was commissioned by the national government as part of an effort to promote the then-remote
Collections
The majority of its collections were requisitioned from the
Expanded and modernized during a 1992 restoration, the museum's collections are divided by a number of categorized halls:
- Natural Sciences: a collection of fossils and geological findings.
- Prehistory: informative dioramas and stratigraphy displays, as well as relics from Stone Age cultures in the area.
- Aboriginal History: displays pertaining to the Yámana cultures, including implements used in astronomy.
- Regional History: exhibits tracing Patagonian history from the early years of Spanish colonization of the Americas to the time of the Argentine War of Independence
- The Julio Roca's in their 19th-century campaigns to displace native peoples, as well as those used by native caciquesin their counteroffensives.
- San Carlos de Bariloche: exhibits relating to local history, from the town's establishment in 1885, to its promotion by Public Works Minister Ezequiel Ramos Mexíaafter 1905 and its later development.
- National Parks: documents, diagrams, and maps pertaining to the development of Lake Nahuel Huapiwas the first.
- Francisco Moreno: an exhibit honoring the museum's namesake, the noted surveyor and academic who donated Lake Nahuel Huapi and its surroundings in 1903 to create the nation's first national park.
The museum also includes a hall for temporary exhibits, an auditorium, workshop, library and archives, as well as facilities for
The Bariloche Civic Center, including the museum, was declared a National Historic Monument in 1987.