Egidio Feruglio Palaeontology Museum
Patagonian fossil museum and research centre, home to the giant titanosaur Patagotitan.
The museum was established in December 1990 and takes its name from Egidio Feruglio, the Italian geologist who mapped much of Patagonian stratigraphy. It works as a research institute as well as a public gallery, associated with Argentina's national research council CONICET, and its stores hold tens of thousands of specimens across palaeobotany, vertebrate and invertebrate palaeontology and trace fossils. Preparation laboratories and a replica workshop staffed by palaeontologists, technicians and model-makers sit alongside the display halls, and parts of them can be seen by visitors.
The permanent galleries run chronologically through Patagonian deep time, from early marine life and fossil forests to the Cretaceous dinosaurs of Chubut and the mammals and terror birds of the Cenozoic. Carnotaurus sastrei, Amargasaurus cazaui and Tehuelchesaurus benitezii are among the animals shown, and the museum is best known for Patagotitan mayorum, one of the largest dinosaurs described; a cast of it made here has been displayed in London. The 140-seat Germán Sopeña auditorium hosts films, lectures and seminars, and an enlarged building opened in August 2026.
Highlights
- Patagotitan mayorum, among the largest dinosaurs described
- Carnotaurus, Amargasaurus and other Chubut dinosaurs
- Working preparation laboratories visible to visitors
- Cenozoic hall of South American mammals and terror birds
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