Museo Sitio de Memoria ESMA — Attraction in Autonomous City of Buenos Aires

What a powerful and eye-opening experience. While visiting, you be in shock that all these awful events happened in the last 50 years. Even more surprising is that governments can still conduct these types of heinous acts against their citizens.

Wasn't sure what to expect as I was not up to date with Argentine political history before the Guerra de Las Malvinas/Faulkland Islands War.

The museum takes you back through history and recounts how the civic-military junta came to power and committed acts against is citizens, both military and civilians: men, women andchildren; the press, other politicians, clergy-noone was spared. The museum sits the beautiful yet haunting grounds of what was both a military academy and civi-military junta headquarters of where the clandestine operations against Argentines were carried out.

Definitely a must when visiting Buenos Aires. Come experience it but be prepared to leave with your heart and mind in pieces. Due to the graphic nature, the museum does not recommend the experience for...

Well-done museum which walks you through every part of the building and the prisoners' experience. Everything is in four languages, plus audio guides are available. I read everything and spent 2.5 hrs. Definitely not a place to bring kids.

The campus hosts several more museums worth visiting; I recommend you visit the Malvinas museum afterwards. There's also one of the planes used for the death flights.

Only negative: the museum is horribly one-sided. Only positive details are given for the detainees, giving the impression the military was hunting down sweet little angels. Before you visit, study up on the victims and terror of the Montoneros, ERP, etc. (the thousands they killed have no museum). Seeing the full picture will help you better understand ESMA as one of many dark choices the Argentine state made when forced into a...

I think this is around the 43rd UNESCO site I visited. Where the other sites are about nature or how man saw the world and built monuments to either tame or honor it, this is a site dedicated to one of the darkest periods of Argentina's history. It's a very solemn experience, it's very hard to smile for the photos when you understand that people where executed in this site. I got lost in the audio stories while walking around halls and walls that look so simple yet holds a lot of secrets about the human suffering. Please visit, as the audio tour says, we need to tell the world what...