Fundación Miguel Lillo has generated and is the depositary
of a significant part of the Argentine cultural assets.
Its
scientific collections, whose quality has been worldwide recognized as an
international standards of comparison include around 3,000,000 plants
and animals (both fossile and contemporary). Such collections are
daily enriched through the continuous work of the staff and are a permanent
source of reference for Argentine and foreign researchers. The report Global
Biodiversity, by the International Union for the Preservation of
Nature, ranks them among the 5 most important ones in Latin
America. The Argentine North-West Geo-Biological Information Center
belonging to the Fundación Miguel Lillo has one of the most
important libraries in the country, with 129,000 volumes (including
editions ranging from the 16th century until the present) and a publishing
house which issues three scientific magazines (Lillo, Acta Zoológica
Lilloana and Acta Geológica Lilloana), the series Opera
Lilloana, Misceláneas and Conservación de la
Naturaleza, and many other books and publications.
2- Shipton Bird Collection. Zoology area (4th floor). Fundación Miguel Lillo. - Tucumán, Argentina -
3- View of the reading room of the Documentation Center. Fundación Miguel Lillo. - Tucumán, Argentina -
4- Partial view of the Documentation Center which accomodates more than 130,000 volumes. Fundación Miguel Lillo. - Tucumán, Argentina -
