Juan B. Ambrosetti Museum of Ethnography — Attraction in Autonomous City of Buenos Aires

The Ethnographic Museum is an institution dedicated to research, dissemination and conservation of historical and anthropological heritage, from the perspective of social processes and respect for cultural plurality. It has vast collections of archeology, ethnography and biological anthropology. Although it has been interested mainly in the aboriginal populations of the current Argentine territory and other areas of the American continent, it has also valued objects from different parts of the world.

The archaeological collection comes mostly from northwestern Argentina and Patagonia and was largely gathered by systematic research organized and funded by the museum itself since its founding. But it includes a broader anthropological background, representative of what at the beginning of the 20th century was called the "primitive world": potteries and weavings of the Andes, vessels of classical Greece, Central American funeral offerings and even prehistoric pottery of present-day Japan.

The area of ​​biological anthropology has about 10,000 bone pieces of individuals from different populations and some mummified bodies.

The ethnographic collections correspond mainly to the material culture of the ethnic groups that have populated what is now the territory of Argentina. They also include goods from other societies: feather art of the Chaco, pottery of the Pueblo Indians, African carvings and Easter Island, pieces of Oceania, cult objects of different religions.

The Ethnographic has a library specialized in anthropology issues and a photographic and documentary archive.

It is currently the headquarters of several research groups of the Faculty, the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research and other...

I went on February 15th 2024 and can confirm that the museum is open again. I found the museum to be somewhat interesting, and don't miss the second floor because that's where a lot of the good exhibits are. Much of it reminds me of exhibits that I saw at museums in Peru. Be sure to look in the gift display (basically a small display mounted on the wall) just behind where the entry desk is. They have many interesting items there for very low prices. The price of admission for foreigners is currently 1,500 pesos. Note that as you are walking around in the different rooms there are folders or a booklet with descriptions...

es una institución dedicada a la investigación, difusión y conservación del patrimonio histórico y antropológico, desde la perspectiva de los procesos sociales y el respeto por la pluralidad cultural. Posee vastas colecciones de arqueología, etnografía y antropología biológica. Aunque se ha interesado principalmente en las poblaciones aborígenes del actual territorio argentino y de otras áreas del continente americano, ha valorado también objetos procedentes de diversas partes del mundo. El acervo arqueológico proviene en su mayoría del noroeste argentino y la Patagonia y en gran medida fue reunido por las investigaciones sistemáticas organizadas y financiadas por el propio museo desde su fundación. Pero incluye un fondo antropológico más amplio, representativo de lo que a principios del siglo XX se denominaba el "mundo primitivo": alfarerías y tejidos de los Andes, vasos de la Grecia clásica, ofrendas funerarias centroamericanas y hasta cerámica prehistórica del actual Japón. El área de antropología biológica dispone de unas 10.000 piezas óseas de individuos de diferentes poblaciones y algunos cuerpos momificados. Las colecciones etnográficas corresponden principalmente a la cultura material de los grupos étnicos que han poblado lo que hoy es el territorio de la Argentina. También abarcan bienes de otras sociedades: arte plumario del Chaco, cerámica de los indios pueblo, tallas africanas y de la isla de Pascua, piezas de Oceanía, objetos de culto de diversas religiones. El Etnográfico cuenta con una biblioteca especializada en temas de antropología y un archivo fotográfico y documental. En la actualidad es la sede de varios grupos de investigación de la Facultad, del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas y de otras...