Museums in Comodoro Rivadavia Military History Museum “Fortin Chacabuco” from “km 11” displays of weapons of campaigns and expions liberators, uniforms and documents tell the story of the Mechanized Infantry Regiment 8. There too, the Monument to General ‘Higgins, the fallen in Malvinas Gesta Falucho and Pfc. Ferroportuario Museum: in the works downtown loft of the former railway station. It has 6 exhibition spaces, digital images, paintings and heritage objects. Reserve an area for the port historical archive, to cataloging, classification and arrangement of its documentary collections. It was declared a national historic interest by the Law No. 24,798 in 1997 and has protection of environment through the project ferroportuario museum, which contains sites important to preserve as the water tower, pump house, factory, workshop, drawing platform of locomotives , storage sheds and adjacent squares. Sites that keep local history.Astra Paleontological Museum: 20 km north of Comodoro center and located in front of the town of Astra, on National Route No. 3. It houses an internal sample invertebrate and vertebrate paleontology, and outside equipment and tools used in the oil industry in the years 1917, the company Astra. Huergo Chalet: situated between downtown and neighborhoods km 3. It is a building dating back to 1919 and was modernized in 1941. Was center of guests, receptions and temporary residence of prominent figures from 1920 to the 60s. Witness the splendor that lived political and oil area hosted ambassadors, journalists, politicians and authorities associated with the former state company YPF, including General Mosconi. He went to the municipality in 1995 and in 2003 was open to the public. 8830/07 alsoby ordinance, the building and its surroundings were declared historical heritage Comodoro Rivadavia.Today is a tour-cultural, exhibition center, theme park in their gardens that provide a park of 5 hectares, with a beautiful vantage point located on the cliff slope of Cerro Chenque. It contains a museum displaying rooms with original furniture, objects and photographs relating to the building, YPF and its history. It also has an area of research and archiving digital images in order to recover the history of the city. Petroleum Museum: considered a site museum, built by YPF in 1987 in the heart of the neighborhood km 3, around the historic Well No. 2, dated 13 December 1907. It exhibits inside the phases of the origin of the universe, the geology, paleontological, historical documentation of the state enterprise and the stages from exploration to marketing the oil. In its gardens, valuable pieces, such as machinery, equipment and tools, from the early twentieth century.It is considered one of the world’s largest following, with regard to their content, alongside the United States and Russia. It is administered by the National University of Patagonia San Juan Bosco . Patagonia Regional Museum Professor Antonio Garces centrally located on Avenida Rivadavia Comodoro Rivadavia, in the building that formerly were the public baths in the city. It has the prestige of being the first of the Patagonian museums, being founded in 1948 by the visionary Professor Antonio Garces. Brina information on geology, paleontology, archeology, flora and fauna Patagonian native cultures, native instruments and early settlers. Ceptura. (Center for Exhibition and Promotion of Tourism): The Ceptura. Built between 1932 and 1935, worked as plant until 1970. Was fully recovered after more than 20 years of neglect. Its function was to provide power to the port facilities. Currently works as a center for exhibitions and Tourism Promotion.It is located at Hip lito Yrigoyen and Mariano Moreno, the building of the former Port Power Plant. Ferroportuario museum called Integra, which comprises a series of buildings of great historical importance – to the cultural city of Comodoro Rivadavia. Similarly, during a tour, you will appreciate the beauty of a building completely recycled for tourism, which conserves within its historical displays, part of the machinery used in mid-1930. Municipal Historical Archive: Acquis Municipal preserves historically valuable documents. Municipal records available since 1905, registo of dysfunctions, regulations and municipal resolutions since 1914, books on the history of Commodore of local researchers, journals Patagonian ions of historical character and fotograf s since 1920.
