Overview Juan B. Ambrosetti Museum of Ethnography

moai kavakava, easter island.



bow , tools of selknam people (tierra del fuego)

featuring on 15,000 artifacts, collection transferred new la plata museum in 1888. explorations in gran chaco region conducted @ time university of buenos aires naturalist juan bautista ambrosetti led extensive, new collection, however, , in 1904, latter inaugurated university of buenos aires museum of ethnography.

the museum became first in argentina introduce guided excursions patrons, , travels along inca road system resulted in 1908 discovery of pucará de tilcara, among best-preserved ruins of settlements pre-inca cultures in area. elaborate petroglyphs , on 3,000 other relics recovered , catalogued in following 3 years, , added collections of museum of ethnography. settlement declared unesco world heritage site in 2003.

dr. ambrosetti died in 1917, , management continued collaborators, drs. salvador debenedetti , félix outes. museum relocated present location in city s montserrat ward in 1927; italianate structure had been designed pedro benoit school of law, , completed in 1878. many of collections of archeology , anthropology of bernardino rivadavia natural sciences museum assigned museum in decade of 1940, despite this, institution became largely overshadowed. bolstered, however, 1958 creation of degree in anthropology university of buenos aires, , institution subsequently transferred university s school of philosophy , letters.