INTA will take part for the first time in La Noche de los Museos in Buenos Aires on Saturday, November 14, as part of its 70th anniversary, with guided tours, historical exhibits, an immersive virology experience and a Museum Bus.
The Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA) will take part for the first time in the city of Buenos Aires' La Noche de los Museos on Saturday, November 14, as part of its 70th anniversary. The institution will open its administrative headquarters at Chile 460 with a guided tour organized into four stations and a series of activities aimed at showcasing its scientific and technological advances.
The agency's addition to the long list of institutions that keep their doors open late on that day coincides with the deepening of the austerity plan the institute is going through. The process will mean fewer resources looking ahead to 2027, has already involved the loss of some 1,800 jobs and has moved forward with the auction of some of its properties.
Those properties include the historic building on Cerviño street, auctioned in 2024 in a rushed process marked by irregularities, for an amount equivalent to three times its base value. That is why the doors that will open will be those of the administrative building at Chile 460, which was also the epicenter of the workers' latest protests against the cutbacks.
The program will seek to showcase INTA's main scientific and technological advances through four stations. There will be historical exhibits, interactive experiences, a musical show and an audiovisual gallery that will run through the institution's seven decades of history.
An immersive experience will also be offered in the laboratory of the Instituto de Virología de Castelar, where key findings for the sector were developed, and visitors will be able to tour a "Museum Bus" set up by the Estación Experimental de Concepción del Uruguay, brought over from Entre Ríos.
"The tour will seek to show INTA's federal work and how the knowledge generated at its Experimental Stations and Research Institutes turns into solutions for production and society," they stated from the institute.
"Taking part in La Noche de los Museos will be an opportunity to bring society closer to the work INTA carries out across the country and to show the research journey, from the laboratories to its application in production systems and its impact on daily life," they noted from INTA.
The Chile 460 headquarters will thus join the public buildings that, once a year, welcome visitors free of charge and keep their doors open until late at night.
