Museo de la Memoria Rosario

"The Museum of Memory was created in 1998 through an ordinance of the Municipal Council of Rosario, with the objective of promoting access to knowledge and research on the situation of human rights and social and political memory in our region, in the country and in Latin America. Its collection includes material of various kinds that reports on human rights violations in Latin America and the world, especially on the actions of State terrorism during the last military-civilian dictatorship in Argentina.

Since December 2010, in its definitive headquarters -building occupied in the past by the II Army Corps Command-, the Museum offers the public a permanent exhibition hall, with works designed by prominent artists from the city of Rosario, and another of temporary exhibitions. It also has a documentary center, a specialized library with more than 3,500 volumes and periodicals, an area of ​​educational extension, an auditorium with capacity for more than 120 people, among other services.

The Museum of the Memory of Rosario is one of the pioneer institutions in Latin America in the treatment of post-genocide memories and has managed to configure itself as a true reference in its kind on the national and international scene.

He is a member of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, of the Federal Network of Memory Sites, under the National Human Rights Secretariat, and of the South American Network of Memory Sites, among other institutions.

It is located at the corner of Córdoba and Moreno streets, in front of San Martín Square, the Faculty of Law, one hundred meters from the former Provincial Police Headquarters and two hundred from the former Clandestine Detention Center known as the Information Service, a place imprisonment, torment, death and disappearance of thousands of men and women.

This building, originally known as Casa de los Padres, was designed by the architect Ermette De Lorenzi and built by engineer José Spirandelli in 1928. The house was no longer used as a family residence towards the end of the 1940s. at that time, the residence had different uses: headquarters of the military power - there the bureaucratic and operative base of the II Army Corps Command settled down over more than 25 years. In 1983, with the recovery of democracy, the building went from being close to the demolition to be used for governmental purposes, first, and commercial until March 2010.

In its spacious and bright rooms, the Army designed and carried out - in close collaboration with the provincial police and different sectors of civil society - the plan of persecution and extermination that was deployed in six provinces of Argentina. This building was a forced pilgrimage site for relatives of detainees-disappeared, who came to its doors in the hope of obtaining an answer about the fate of their loved ones, snatched from their side by the repressive forces."

Suvendu Das

"very intresting site to visit"

Global Gyan Hub

"A space with a strong symbolic and resistance charge at this time. A must-visit museum in the city to keep Memory and the call for Justice alive.
It sets it apart from other clandestine detention centers converted into Museums/Cultural Spaces, where in their halls one can explore Memory through the Visual Arts, through permanent works and temporary exhibitions."

Federico Alonso