Resumen de Buenos Aires, 1884. De cómo la fragilidad de unos esqueletos derrumbaron el proyecto de un Gran Museo Nacional
Silvia Ametrano, Irina Podgorny, María Margaret Lopes
Buenos Aires, 1884. How the fragility of a few skeletons triumphed over the project for aGrand National Museum. The museums of our continent are a result from a combination of factors, such ascultural trends, rivalry between cities, countries, and research teams, and the affinities or exchanges with metropolitancenters. Alliances and scientific wars determined the course of these institutions. As we show in thispaper, in the 1880s and 1890s, competition between individuals, the Museo General de La Plata of the Provinceof Buenos Aires and the Museo Nacional of Buenos Aires would define the paths they would follow and a race forthe possession of a large fossiliferous collection.
