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| nuthatch | profile | all galleries >> Argentina >> La Plata | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
 visiting the city of La Plata... |
 ...capital of Buenos Aires province... |
 ...with our friend Alberto |
 here's the office of the governor of Buenos Aires province |
 the Plaza Moreno |
 the Palacio Municipal |
 (some well-known figures) |
 the city cathedral, on the square |
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 into the Bosque, a large naturalized urban park... |
 ...to vist the Argentina's largest natural sciences museum |
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 the collection started with Perito Moreno |
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 the museum & building date from 1889 |
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 displays on materials and structures of nature |
 meet Diplodocus Carnegii |
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 Marla and Alberto digging perhaps a little too far back into family history... |
 a petrified conifer from Chubut |
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 upstairs to see the ethnography collection |
 artwork from Argentine indians near the border with Brazil |
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 in the archaeology section |
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 artifacts from numerous digs; this one in the high Andes plains |
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 from the swampy site of La Cienaga |
 a two-headed vessel |
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 a site model from 1908 |
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 back in the ethnography section, featuring items from Argentina and elsewhere in Latin America |
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 a harvest game with shuttlecocks |
 masks from Brazil |
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 downstairs in the hall of comparative osteology |
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 comparing structures of whales and the building |
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 a quick stop in La Boca on our way back into Buenos Aires |
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