This museum is situated in a large enchanted park with a subterranean labyrinth, romantic little ruins and all sorts of trees, mulberry, araukaria, palmtrees etc. The perfect location for children! The theme of the museum is the military dictatorship in the seventies and the imprisonment of many leftist intellectuals and democrats during that time. Like in Guatemala, soldiers abducted and killed suspected Pocitos persons at night - in Guatemala tens of thousands, in Uruguay about 150 "Disaparecidos" (I hope my memory is right, if not, please correct). In Montevideo women are still showing their enlarged photographs in street demonstrations. In the cinemas of Montevideo you can see "Una noche de 12 anos" about the conditions of living in jail for the socialist guerrillas Tupamaros, among them Jose Mujica who later became the much beloved President of Uruguay. It would, in my opinion, need more explanation why Uruguay just like other south american countries suddenly switched from democracy to military dictatorships. This does not happen like a sudden thunderstorm or an earthquake, but there are reasons. To me, these reasons are still unclear.