In the town of Nono, there is a very weird museum called "Museo Rocsen". If you are interested in any or all of the following: geodes, fetuses in jars, taxidermy, old stamps, cameras, printing equipment, shrunken heads, horse drawn carts, religious art, old soda cans, medieval weaponry, ancient agricultural equipment, lampshades, and disassembled engines...Rocsen could well be your happy place.
The museum building itself is impressive- the front facade is a pantheon of life-size statues dedicated to people with ideas that changed history. Aristotle, Hippocrates, Jesus? Sure, no brainers. It was intesting to see the likes of Chief Seattle, Rachel Carson, and JS Bach included with these giants of history. I suppose if you own a museum you can put whoever you like up there!
Alta Gracia is a town south of Cordoba, famous for being the place where Ernesto Guevara lived between the ages of 5 and 16. The house where he lived for a portion of this time is now a museum. We weren't expecting much, but it turned out to be very worthwhile. There are interesting exhibits on the stages of his childhood and adolescence (including replicas of the bicycle and motorcycle that he took around Central and South America), a small theater that shows interviews with people he grew up with, and even a bit of dirt and rocks from the room in Bolivia where he was killed.
A bit further south, we checked out the town Villa General Belgrano (named after the creator of the Argentinian flag), a small German-style village that was founded by two Germans in 1930 and later inhabited by German seaman whose boat sunk off the Argentinian coast. You can buy German-language newspapers, drink German-style beer, and eat German food. It was pretty weird, but a nice little town to have a wander.
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