Arroyo del Vizcaíno collection
The Arroyo del Vizcaíno collection is a site located in Sauce, Canelones, Uruguay. This site tells the story of extinct giant mammals, with the distinctiveness of much earlier than expected human presence. The discovery of the fossils was made by the people of Sauce in 1997, and now the research is led by a team of paleontologists from Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República. The collection has more than 1,000 fossils of 30,000-year-old extinct animals among which are the saber-toothed tiger Smilodon, the giant sloths Lestodon, Glossotherium and Mylodon, the gliptodonts Glyptodon, Doedicurus and Panochthus, the ungulate Toxodon, the mastodon Stegomastodon, and some other remains of fossil horses and deer.
Location: Av. Artigas s/n esquina Canelones. Sauce, Canelones, Uruguay.
National Museum of Natural History of Montevideo
Founded in 1837, the National Museum of Natural History of Montevideo is the pioneering scientific institution of Uruguay. Among its founding fathers are Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga, Teodoro Vilardebó and Bernardo Berro. The museum shared the building with the Solís Theater for more than 120 years but it is currently going through its most difficult time, being housed in a rented space and without enough room to have an exhibition open to the public. It is the repository of some of the most important biological collections in Uruguay and of one of the most important scientific libraries in South America. Among its collections the paleontological one is remarkable, with thousands of pieces, mostly of fossil vertebrates.
Location: Miguelete 1825, esq. Arenal Grande. Montevideo, Uruguay.
Paleontological Museum Armando Calcaterra
Located in Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay, near the Plaza de Toros, it exhibits fossils belonging to the megafauna from the Pampas found in the department of Colonia. Its collection also includes malacology, geology, and indigenous archeology.
Location: Calle Roger Balet s/n (Real de San Carlos). Colonia del Sacramento, Colonia, Uruguay.
Natural History Museum Dr. Carlos A. Torres de la Llosa
The Natural History Museum, a dependence of the Secondary Education Council, had its origin in the “Natural History Cabinet” of the Secondary Education Section of the University of the Republic, belonging to it until 1935. Inaugurated on January 22nd, 1911 this museum is characterized by being mainly an educational museum, exhibiting all their pieces in a naturalistic fashion, many of them acquired in the Laboratory Deyrolle of Paris in the early twentieth century. It has an important collection of very valuable native exotic and extinct zoological species, including vertebrates and invertebrates, as well as fossils, rocks, and minerals.
Location: Eduardo Acevedo 1427, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Paleontological Museum of Dolores
Inaugurated in 2013, this museum houses the collection of amateur paleontologist Carlos María Saavedra, who for more than 40 years collected, classified, and preserved thousands of paleontological, geological, and archaeological remains from Soriano. 90% of the collection is formed by pieces collected by Saavedra and his successors. The remaining 10% came as acquisitions, loans and donations made by neighbors who also made findings over the years. The majority of the specimens are vertebrate fossils, most of which are mammals of the Quaternary period, the so-called South American megafauna. However, we can also find fragments of dinosaur eggs, wasp nests and fishes. Some archaeological objects are also part of the collection in smaller numbers.
Location: Iris de López Crespo and Botinelli, Dolores, Soriano, Uruguay.
Museo Municipal de Colonia Dr. Bautista Rebuffo
Institución dependiente de la Intendencia de Colonia. Constituye el primer museo de la ciudad de Colonia fundado en 1951. Se ubica en una construcción principalmente portuguesa de la primera mitad del siglo XVIII, con intervenciones durante la ocupación española. Su acervo comprende diversos tipos de colecciones (historia, arqueología, ciencias naturales, antropología), que tienen por denominador común: ser construidos, heredados, descubiertos o utilizados por antepasados de la propia comunidad. A través de estos objetos, el museo ofrece a los visitantes una lectura de su entorno desde tiempos prehistóricos hasta nuestros días. (Texto tomado de la Web del Sistema de Museos de Colonia, www.museoscolonia.com.uy)
Ubicación: Calle Del Comercio 77. Colonia del Sacramento, Colonia, Uruguay.
MUARN Museo Arqueológico de Río Negro
Ubicación: Río Negro y 19 de abril, Young, Río Negro.
Museo de Arqueología y Ciencias Naturales (Salto)
Este museo depende de la Intendencia de Salto y se ubica en el subsuelo del ex Mercado Central, junto al Museo del Hombre y la Tecnología. Este espacio reúne colecciones arqueológicas prehistóricas entre las que destacan objetos pertenecientes al primer poblamiento de nuestro territorio (12 mil años atrás) y muestras de arte rupestre: petroglifos o piedras grabadas y pictografías o pinturas indígenas, características de la localidad.
(Texto tomado del Portal de Museos del Uruguay, www.museos.gub.uy)
Ubicación: Brasil 511 esq. Zorrilla de San Martín. Salto, Uruguay.