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Museo de La Plata
The neoclassical facade of the museum
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Established1888
LocationLa Plata, Argentina
Coordinates34°54′32″S 57°56′07″W / 34.9090°S 57.9354°W / -34.9090; -57.9354
Visitors400,000
DirectorAnalía Lanteri [es]
WebsiteOfficial website

The La Plata Museum (Spanish: Museo de La Plata) is a natural history museum in La Plata, Argentina. It is part of the Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo (Natural Sciences School) of the National University of La Plata.

The building, 135 meters (443 feet) long, today houses 3 million fossils and relics (including 44,000 botanical items), an amphitheatre opened in 1992, and a 58,000-volume library, serving over 400 university researchers.[1] Around 400,000 visitors (8% of whom are from outside Argentina) pass through its doors yearly, including a thousand visiting researchers.

  1. ^ "El Museo de Ciencias Naturales es el primero de su tipo que está en Google Arts & Culture". 0221 (in Spanish). 2022-12-04. Retrieved 2023-12-02.

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