Founded in 1888 in a neoclassical style and ornamentation Columbian, has more than 3 million objects in its collection, including large mammals highlights the Tertiary and Quaternary fossils and archaeological and ethnographic collections.
It has 21 permanent exhibition halls that present objects of geology, flora, fauna and cultures, mainly from South America.
This large oval Greco-Roman building is one of the key links of the cultural and scientific life of La Plata, but its location is part of the Paseo del Bosque. Visited annually by a million people, is the largest Natural History Museum of Spanish-speaking world and one of the most renowned for its collections and scientific work at the international level.Installed in 1884, this giant 135-meter oval of 60, was the brainchild of its founder, the Perito Moreno Pascasio Francisco, whose collections were the initial base of two million pieces currently classified and higher education for natural sciences.
In 1906 the Museum became part of the University. Since then is the largest Latin American naturalists, with 120 chairs in the departments of Anthropology, Botany, Geology, Ecology, Paleontology and Zoology.
The most important collections of fossil vertebrates are the Cenozoic, the archeology, ethnography and anthropology, entomology, the current American vertebrates, those of botany and ethnobotany, the current fossil invertebrates and mineralogy to those added by donations, important examples of pre-Columbian cultures and also the Egyptian room. Some collections, like those of vertebrate fossils are unique in the world.Today is a tiny fraction of them in the 23 halls of travel, but is designed to expand the existing structure through an underground ring 400 meters long and 10 meters wide.