Natural history museums in Argentina during the last third of the nineteenth century have usually been regarded as pivotal institutions in the survey and exhibition of the national territory and, by extension, as disseminators of cohesive civic representations in the context of ‘nation building’. Departing from the idea of museums as material spaces in which scientific, concrete practices around collections take place, in this essay we propose a more nuanced picture that shows labile and changing ties between natural history museums and the state during the period. To this end, we consider the crafting of collections, exhibitions, policies of access and use developed at the Museo Público de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (later Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires) and the Museo General de La Plata.

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阿根廷的自然历史博物馆，1862–1906 年

19 世纪后三十年阿根廷的自然历史博物馆通常被认为是国家领土调查和展览的关键机构，并进一步被视为“国家建设”背景下有凝聚力的公民表现的传播者。与博物馆作为物质空间的概念不同，博物馆是围绕藏品进行科学、具体实践的物质空间，在本文中，我们提出了一幅更细致入微的图景，展示了这一时期自然历史博物馆与国家之间不稳定和不断变化的联系。为此，我们考虑了布宜诺斯艾利斯省公共博物馆（后来的布宜诺斯艾利斯国家博物馆）和拉普拉塔总博物馆制定的藏品、展览、访问和使用政策。