The La Plata Museum is one of South America’s most important Natural History museums. Modeled after important European museums, construction began in 1884 and took four years to complete.
Permanent exhibitions include rooms dedicated to anthropology, archeology, paleontology, zoology, evolution and even an Egyptian hall with hieroglyphs, ceramics and ancient coffins. Yet another hall is dedicated to the architecture, art and music of Jesuit missionaries and the Guarani communities they aimed to convert. There are also wonderfully curated temporary exhibitions.
El Museo de La Plata 
(inside the Paseo del Bosque)
Tel: 425-7744
• Hours: Tue—Sun; 10:00 to 18:00
• Cost: AR$
La Plata Cathedral of Immaculate Conception
Plaza Moreno
Calle 14, between Avenidas 51 and 53
Tel: 423-3931
• Hours: 9:00 to 19:00, Mon— Sun & national holidays
• Admission to visit the bell tower/lookout point: AR$ 10
Palacio Municipal
Plaza Moreno
Calle 12 and Avenida 51; Calle 11 and Avenida 53
Tel: 429-1000
Teatro Argentino
Calle 9, Calle 10 and Avenida 51, Avenida 53
Tel: 0800-666-5151 / (0221) 429-1700
Casa Curutchet
53 Street # 320
Tel: 421-8032 / 482-2631
•Hours: Tue, Wed & Thur: 10:00 a.m.—2:30 p.m.
• Cost: AR$ with student I.D., AR$; w/ Argentine DNI Foreigners-$$
• Closed in January
Palacio de la Legislatura
Plaza San Martin
Calle 7, Calle 8, and Avenida 51, Avenida 53
Casa de Gobierno
Plaza San Martin
Calle 6 and Avenida 51
República de Los Niños (Children’s Republic) 
Cno. Gral. Belgrano y 501 (at Gonnet)
Tel: (221) 484-1409 / 1206
•Hours: Mon—Sun: 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
La Plata Tourist Office
Palacio Campodónico (Diagonal 79 at 5)
Tel: 422-9764.
• Hours Mon-Fri 9:00 a.m.—5:00 p.m.