Civic Centre of Bariloche
Alpine-style civic complex of 1940 in stone and slate, housing the Museum of Patagonia.
The complex was built between 1936 and 1940 as part of the works programme that Exequiel Bustillo directed for the national parks administration, and it was inaugurated on 17 March 1940. Ernesto de Estrada drew up the main design, while Alejandro Bustillo was responsible for the parks headquarters building. Reinforced concrete frames and brick walls are faced in local stone and timber, with steep gables roofed in black slate, giving the group a single picturesque character that set the pattern for later building in Bariloche.
Four ranges stand in a U around a paved plaza left open on the north side towards Lake Nahuel Huapi, with terraces, arcades and bridge-like balconies linking them. The municipal building carries a clock tower whose figures appear at midday. Occupants include the town hall, the police headquarters, a public library and the Museum of Patagonia, whose rooms cover natural history, prehistory, indigenous peoples, regional history and the explorer Francisco P. Moreno. The complex was declared a national historic monument in 1989.
Highlights
- Stone and timber ranges with black slate roofs around a plaza
- Clock tower with figures that appear when it strikes noon
- Museum of Patagonia occupying the eastern range
- National historic monument, open towards Lake Nahuel Huapi
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