Melody13
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With the instagram sent last week "vivamosba" I found this place near where I currently work and happen to visit this museum.
Very nice museum, ideal for railroad lovers! Admission is free and it is located near Retiro station. We highly recommend the guided visit to enjoy the tour, since they explain in an excellent way the history of the train in our country. And so we go through different rooms where we find furniture, ticket vending machines, telegraphs, train parts, etc.. Also in the courtyard we find historic train cars that can be toured. Recommended!
Founded in 1971, the National Railway Museum "Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz" offers its visitors guided tours in Spanish, English and Portuguese.
Among ticket vending and punching machines, padlocks, date stamps, office furniture, bellows, clocks, telegraphs, telephones, zorras, velocipedes and hundreds of other objects that have been protagonists of the daily work of the Argentine Railways in the last one hundred and sixty years, its collection includes internationally unique pieces such as an early 20th century railroad, a steam locomotive, a steam locomotive, a railway engine and a railway car, all of which were used by the Argentine Railways during the last century. XX, a wide gauge steam locomotive -called "PATRIA"- from 1896 and a 60 cm. gauge Hunslet locomotive from 1919 that worked in the Correntino Economic Railway.
In addition, there are objects that were part of great historical events of our country such as the Presidential Car OF1, which transported John Paul II to the Basilica of Our Lady of Luján during his visit in 1982, a wooden presidential car of the early twentieth century and the desk where the nationalization of the Argentine railroads was signed in 1948.
Its facilities were completely renovated between 2017 and 2019, when the existing hall was modernized and a spacious mezzanine was added, which, in addition to increasing its capacity, notably improved the visitors' experience with a better distribution of the pieces.
It also has a virtual tour with descriptions of its pieces in audio and text, in Spanish and English, which allows those who are passionate about our railway history to visit the Museum at any time of the day, from anywhere in the world.
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Very nice museum, ideal for railroad lovers! Admission is free and it is located near Retiro station. We highly recommend the guided visit to enjoy the tour, since they explain in an excellent way the history of the train in our country. And so we go through different rooms where we find furniture, ticket vending machines, telegraphs, train parts, etc.. Also in the courtyard we find historic train cars that can be toured. Recommended!
Founded in 1971, the National Railway Museum "Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz" offers its visitors guided tours in Spanish, English and Portuguese.
Among ticket vending and punching machines, padlocks, date stamps, office furniture, bellows, clocks, telegraphs, telephones, zorras, velocipedes and hundreds of other objects that have been protagonists of the daily work of the Argentine Railways in the last one hundred and sixty years, its collection includes internationally unique pieces such as an early 20th century railroad, a steam locomotive, a steam locomotive, a railway engine and a railway car, all of which were used by the Argentine Railways during the last century. XX, a wide gauge steam locomotive -called "PATRIA"- from 1896 and a 60 cm. gauge Hunslet locomotive from 1919 that worked in the Correntino Economic Railway.
In addition, there are objects that were part of great historical events of our country such as the Presidential Car OF1, which transported John Paul II to the Basilica of Our Lady of Luján during his visit in 1982, a wooden presidential car of the early twentieth century and the desk where the nationalization of the Argentine railroads was signed in 1948.
Its facilities were completely renovated between 2017 and 2019, when the existing hall was modernized and a spacious mezzanine was added, which, in addition to increasing its capacity, notably improved the visitors' experience with a better distribution of the pieces.
It also has a virtual tour with descriptions of its pieces in audio and text, in Spanish and English, which allows those who are passionate about our railway history to visit the Museum at any time of the day, from anywhere in the world.
