The Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museum is the most important of its kind in Buenos Aires, focusing specially zoologyl, botanic, and geology.
In 1812 Bernardino Rivadavia – at the time an important government minister, and later the first president of Argentina – called for the provinces to collect materials to create a natural history museum.
The museum is divided in the Aquarium, the Paleontology, the Sounds of nature, the Present day mammals and the Museum History.