The Exhibitist

Continuing the whirlwind tour of my whirlwind tour of museums in Luján, this is the El Museo Colonial e Historico in the Complejo Museográfico Provincial Enrique Udaondo:

The museum is comprised of the oldest buildings in the province, if my obscenely poor Spanish serves, and so provides some lovely examples of colonial era architecture.

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It also provides examples of a variety of historical thingamajigs.

 

There’s old-timey science!

And the requisite haunted doll.

It’s a thoughtful, wide-ranging museum, and it includes some comparisons between olden times and modern ones. Ever a fan of interactivity in museums, I was pleased to see a wall that invited visitors to write down what they see in an old painting of a young child.

Speaking of political scribbles!  A lesson in political cartoons:

And, very pleasantly, a comparison of family life and marriage, which includes, for modern examples, two married men and a bi-racial family.  It also talks about how the idea of what constitutes “women’s work” has changed.

There’s more there!  It’s really a lovely, thoughtful history museum and worth a visit.  It’s closed Mondays and Tuesdays except for previously arranged guided tours.  There is a entry fee, and I can’t remember how much it is, but it was inexpensive.