Reading history through landscape

socio-environmental transformations from a museum and its surroundings (Punta Indio, Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Abstract

This paper aims to analyse the landscape changes of the city of Verónica, located in the district of Punta Indio, Argentina, and its surroundings, in two specific moments: its creation and nowadays. The Historical Museum of Punta Indio "Eduardo Barés" will be considered as the epicentre of the narrative, in which the process of creation of the colony in 1914 - in the context of the modernisation of Argentina - and its current function today will be exposed. Through environmental history, this article aims to reveal the authenticity of the place studied, showing that the impact provoked by the global market at the beginning of the 20th century in Argentina is still present in the current work of cultural, social and environmental rescue of the pampas.