Downtown Santa Rosa

Municipalidad De Santa Rosa

    Provincial Museum of Natural Sciences
    Tel. 422693 - sc_mushnat@lapampa.rffdc.edu.ar

    The Museum is in 150 Pellegrini street and is open from Monday to Friday from 8:00 hs. to 17:00 hs. and on Saturdays and Sundays from 18:00 hs. to 21:00 hs. It was inaugurated on 9th July 1935 and later re-inaugurated on 25th May 1957 in the same place as the offices of Dirección Provincial de Cultura.
    This Museum possesses two very abundant sectors: Natural Sciences, with a complete collection of regional fauna and a botanic sector, and Historical Archaeology, with abundant material about aborigines and the conquest of the wilderness, with findings such as those of the site called Casa de Piedra dating from 6670 B.C., the rock paintings found in Lihuel Calel hills, or the engraved plaques of Valle Daza and Hucal, which give testimony of the habits of the old inhabitants of this region.

    Arts Museum
    9 de Julio and Villegas - sc_artes@lapampa.rrffdc.edu.ar

    Enriched by a collection of pieces from this and other provinces, here you will find paintings, drawings, sculptures, pottery, engravings and photographs.
    The house was built by Tomás Mason at the beginning of the XX century, and it has been at different times the house of its owner, a guest house, Escuela Normal Mixta's Kindergarden, some artists' workshop during the sixties, the library of Escuela Normal, and see of the Soils Department, until the building was recovered for the Museum on behalf of the Secretaría de Cultura de La Pampa and the Centro Pampeano de Artistas Plásticos in 1987.

This Provincial Arts Museum possesses a collection of around 600 works of art among paintings, sculptures, engravings, photographs and pottery acquired from national and foreign authors through purchase, donations or acquisition prizes in several provincial exhibitions.
The mission of this Museum is to make its collection known through permanent and itinerant exhibitions.

    It also aims at the promotion and development of the local artistic activity by means of contests, encounters, provincial and regional exhibitions, and private shows.
    Creative and recreational activities related to art are promoted through the Educative Service of the Museum.
    The artistic heritage fund is preserved and restored by this institution, which also provides specialized support through its Library, Slides collection and Video collection to students, artists and researchers.

    Handicraft Market
    It is situated at the corner of San Martín Av. and Luro Av. and offers high quality products made of leather, wool and other materials, an ideal place for souvenirs.

    Spanish Theatre
    Situated in 44 H. Lagos street and open since 1908, it has one of the nicest halls in the country in a style admired and praised by artists from all over the world, with details such as the caryatids of the stage, the medallions of the arcade, the capitals of the pillars, and other baroque ornaments.
    There are activities such as zarzuelas, operas, music festivals, plays, lectures, etc.

     Cathedral
    Across from San Martín Square, the Cathedral has a modern facade with fourteen stylish hexagons representing the mystic body of the church and twelve figures symbolizing the Apostles.
    This composition is completed by a bigger figure with a cross representing Christ and a different hexagon with a crown symbolizing Virgin Mary. In the upper part there is a modern carrillon bell installed in 1999.
    Inside the Cathedral you will see the Via Crucis, made by the artist Eduardo Barnes, a sculptor from Rosario born in 1901.
    In the church lie the remains of Tomás Mason, founder of the city.

    Nazaret
    This house of spiritual exercises is situated in Víctor Arriaga street, to the east of the city. It is in the middle of a wide park with gardens. Along the access there are fifteen bas-relieves representing the mysteries of the rosary. Visitors are received by the figure of the Guardian Angel, specially brought from Rome.


    Our Lady of Fatima's Sanctuary
    It is situated on Don Bosco Square, a few steps from the Provincial Legislature. Its architecture is modern, being the shape of David's Star the basic element for the development of the building. Across from the Sanctuary is the hermitage of the Thinking Christ, whose image sculped in linden wood was donated by the Polish community.

    Carmelites Monastery
    Situated next to Nazareth House, here monks live in the cloister and one can talk to them through some symbolic bars in the locutories. In the chapel, the image of the Holy Virgin Mary of La Pampa is venerated. The sculpture was made by a Carmelite monk, and in it the virgin is wearing a "poncho" similar to the ones which may be acquired in this place.

    Photographs: www.santarosa.gov.ar.-