That said, this museum in Pedro´s hometown is AWESOME. It is the largest natural history museum in Latin America (at least it was circa 2007 when my guidebook was written) and has a very old-fashioned, 19th century feel. The building itself is beautiful and houses hall after hall of any kind of bones you could possibly want to see. Dinosaurs? Check. Giant armadillo-type creatures from the ice ages? Check. Umpteen whale skeletons hanging above elephants, horses and giraffes? Check. There are cool displays of various bugs and butterflies, as well as a room that houses a collection of stuffed animals that would make darwin weep, all realistically displayed, for example the case containing a condor devouring a small goat on a rock which I assumed represented a mountain top.
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