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Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences

museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Also known as: Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”

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Spanish:: Museo Argentino De Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”

Date:: 1823 - present

Areas Of Involvement:: science

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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