拉普拉塔自然科学博物馆

This is my favourite museum in the city. It's fun, cheap and educational. Don't miss out on the Egyptian room. Access it's page to check monthly exhibits.You have to pay a very small fee to go in.There are also great courses like Quechua lessons, pottery classes and much more dictated by the staff from the Natural History School from La Plata University.Look out for museums night. You can tour any museums you like in the city for free at night.

The Museo de Ciencias Naturales is a classic old museum building, right down to the sabertooth cats flanking the entry. The exhibits are of traditional design and are a treasure trove of botanical, zoological, geological and paleontological artifacts, with the greatest strength in Argentina. The Museo is home to an internationally recognized faculty of research scientists, and this is reflected in the quality of the exhibits. Take the guided tour, especially if unfamiliar with Argentine flora and fauna. My guide was very helpful and informative.

Nice museum of natural science in La Plata. Very small entrance fee. Excellent collection of dinosaur fossils.

Lots of bones and some taxidermy with other stuff thrown in...I guess OK but I felt they did a poor job with the upkeep of exhibition spaces-everything looks dusty and left to languish. The building itself is beautiful and the location in the park is nice.

Wait for the guided tour and you will never forget the experience. It is a great museum with dinosaurs, mega fauna, etc. You will love it. We miss the upper floor (antropology) and we are going to return for sure.It is around 2 hours in car from Buenos Aires tough.

The Museo de La Plata is in some ways old-fashioned, but obviously it is being refurbished and improved. The collections (especially the palaeontology collection) are huge, and the late 19th century building itself is an architectural marvel. This museum ranks among the greatest natural history museums in the world and is well worth a visit.

The science and natural history museum is of modest size. However, the exhibits are wonderfully presented. Captions are all in Spanish. But, even if you don't read Spanish, it's worth the trip.

Great museum, collection is immense, Dinosaurs, skeletons of whales and other big animals. An impressive building

I've been to this museum twice now and consider myself lucky as it is so wonderfuly maintained with excellent displays, great tour guides (ask for Florencia S. as she is senior there, very knowledgeable, speaks good english, and very friendly), and very comprehensive. They are constantly changing the displays and there is a lot of ongoing research too. For those of you who want to take a little break they have a nice little coffee shop, plus a couple of gift shops. If you like to walk around the park there, it is a true pleasure and is photogenic as well. There's another small restaurant in that park with great food with beer, wine, or soft drinks to accompany. It's quite small so go early to get a seat. Cheers, JeffPS, if you have any questions feel free to contact me. I still have contacts in La Plata also who are always so helpful. Great friends!

The first purpose-built museum in Latin America, and something of a relic in itself, the Museo de Ciencias Naturales is a real treat for anyone with a fondness for old-fashioned museums. Curatorial policy, whereby each room is more or less autonomously organized, and a chronic shortage of funds make the museum somewhat patchy, but its highlights, together with its general ambience, are sufficient to make it well worth a visit. The beautiful circular entrance hall , the first of the museum's 21 rooms, all chronologically ordered, lies immediately to the right of the entrance hall. The first section is devoted to rocks and minerals , including an example of a fossilized araucaria trunk from a petrified forest in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz. The palaeontological section which follows contains a reproduction of the fossilized remains of the largest spider ever found: named the Megarachne Servinei Hünicken, the fifty-centimetre-long arachnid was found in Bajo de Véliz in San Luis Province and is some 290 million years old. There is also a reproduction of a diplodocus skeleton, donated to the museum in 1912 by the North American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie; the unusually complete original is housed in the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh. In the same room, you'll find the original skeleton of a neuquensaurus, or titanosaurus, a herbivorous dinosaur common in the north of Patagonia towards the end of the Cretaceous Period. Room VI is dedicated to the beginnings of the Cenozoic Period , also known as the Age of Mammals, which extend from around 65 million years ago to the present day. The room's impressive collection of skeletons includes the gliptodon, forerunner of today's armadillos; the enormous megatherium, largest of the megafauna which, when standing upright on its powerful two hind legs, would have reached almost double its already impressive six metres; the toxodon, somewhat similar to the hippopotamus, though unrelated; and the camel-like macrauchenia. The Latin American Archaeology section is to be found upstairs along with the collection of objects from the northwest of Argentina. The first room to the left of the stairs has a large collection of ceramics, mostly from the pre-Columbian cultures of the Peruvian region: including a fine collection of brightly coloured Nazca pottery. In the second room the most notable pieces are the so-called suplicantes from the Condorhuasi-Alamito culture that thrived in Central Catamarca between about 200 and 500AD. Highly sophisticated and unique to the Condorhuasi, the suplicantes are among the most valuable pieces in the museum's collection.

Imposibe no visitarlo. Esta en una zona muy tranquila, el bosque, de facil acceso desde calle 1. el museo en si es interesantisimo y tiene una muuy buena coleccion antropologica . Vale la pena ir

Un museo entrañable, maravilloso, divinamente mantenido con un amor y una dedicación que emocionan. Ojalá a nadie se le ocurra nunca "modernizarlo". Es una joya que los argentinos tenemos para nuestros hijos y ños visitantes del exterior que se quedan deslumbrados!

Como ex alumno del Museo y amante del lugar desde hace mucho,cada tanto me doy una vuelta para recordar viejos tiempos .En pocos años llevarè a mis sobrinos para que tengan una vision detallada de distintos aspectos de las Ciencias Naturales y ver sus caras de asombro.Lugar para recomendar y volver para derramar algunas lagrimas recordando viejos momentos!!!!.

Tanto para turistas como para residentes de la ciudad es un lugar para conocer y recorrer con tiempo y paciencia

Solía ir de excursión con el Colegio cuando era chica y por un tema laboral tuve que viajar a La Plata y me tomé un tiempo para entrar. Impecable como siempre, en medio del bosque de La Plata, la variedad de temas es atrapante. La cámara egipcia es impresionante. Para no dejar de visitarlo.