Qualla: La Plata Museum https://qualla.com/la-plata-museum en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/y/c/la-plata-museum-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: La Plata Museum https://qualla.com/la-plata-museum La Plata Museum: Introduction https://qualla.com/la-plata-museum/ Photo credit Kevin Gabbert - User: (WT-shared) Kevin James at wts wikivoyage, Public domain. He was fourteen years old, and his bedroom was filling up with bones. Francisco Pascasio Moreno had been hauling fossils, skulls and curiosities home from family excursions for years, and in 1866 he finally arranged them into a display in his parents' Buenos Aires house. He could not have known that this teenage cabinet of wonders was the seed of one of the most important natural history museums on the planet. Today the collection he started fills a 135-meter building in La Plata and holds roughly three million objects, only a sliver of which the public ever sees.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/y/c/la-plata-museum-wp/69yc-la-plata-museum-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full La Plata Museum: The Explorer Who Became a Museum https://qualla.com/la-plata-museum/ Photo credit Taken by the uploader, w:es:Usuario:Barcex, CC BY-SA 3.0. Moreno did not stay in his bedroom for long. Between 1873 and 1877 he pushed into Patagonia when much of it was still blank on the map, becoming the first non-indigenous Argentine to stand on the shore of Lake Nahuel Huapi and to reach the vast body of water he named Lago Argenti...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/y/c/la-plata-museum-wp/69yc-la-plata-museum-the-explorer-who-became-a-museum.mp3 0:06 2 full La Plata Museum: A Hall of Vanished Giants https://qualla.com/la-plata-museum/ Photo credit (WT-en) Cjfrey at English Wikivoyage, Public domain. Walk inside and you walk backward through time, exactly as the nineteenth-century scientists intended. The museum's fame rests on its fossil mammals from the Pampas, the strange megafauna that roamed South America before the last ice age ended. There is the Megatherium, a ground ...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/y/c/la-plata-museum-wp/69yc-la-plata-museum-a-hall-of-vanished-giants.mp3 0:06 3 full La Plata Museum: Deeper Than the Dinosaurs https://qualla.com/la-plata-museum/ Photo credit Danielsantiago9128, CC BY-SA 3.0. The galleries reach far past the megafauna. Argentine trilobites from the Cambrian and graptolites from the Silurian record life from hundreds of millions of years ago. Upstairs, the archaeological collection traces human cultures of the Americas from the preceramic past all the ...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/y/c/la-plata-museum-wp/69yc-la-plata-museum-deeper-than-the-dinosaurs.mp3 0:06 4 full La Plata Museum: A Living Institution https://qualla.com/la-plata-museum/ Photo credit Mikelzubi, CC BY-SA 4.0. Moreno struggled to fund the place he had built. The provincial legislature paid for only nine assistants, and in 1906 he folded the museum into the growing University of La Plata to keep it alive, stepping back as director but never as its devoted caretaker until his death in 19...

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