MUSEOGRAPHY
Assistant

Agustina Gandini

María Alejandra Rosell
Rafaela Jendres Del Rio
Maria Gimena Carmody

María Alejandra Rosell
Rafaela Jendres Del Rio
Maria Gimena Carmody

Matilde Llambi Campbell
Claudia Maldonado Ayan

Claudia Maldonado Ayan
Agustina Gandini
Daniel Giri
Juan Carlos Arias
Leonardo Lupiano

Paola Soledad Rodriguez
Claudia Maldonado Ayan
Agustina Gandini
Natalia Fuenzalida
Patricia Garcia
Horacio García

Juan Carlos Arias

Iraí Rayén Freire

Cándido Carlos Sifón
Martín Carreño
Eduardo Cenatiempo
Mariano Fariña
Silvia Martínez
Omar Kalasnicoy

Work Experience

Director Muestras Temporarias del Centro de Visitantes ALAKUSH del Parque Nacional Tierra del Fuego, from 2009
Director of Antarctic Museum "José María Sobral ", from 2008
Director Marine Art Museum, from 2006
Director of the Southern Patagonian Ship Itinerant Museum aboard the Ice Lady Patagonia,from 2001 to 2007
Director of the Ushuaia Maritime and Prison Museum. from 1994
Director of Fin del Mundo Ltd. from 1992 to date

President of ADiMRA (Argentine Museum Directors Association) from 2001.
Member of the Executive Committee of Argentine ICOM (International Council of Museums) from October 2001 to 2004.
Active member of ICMM (International Council of Maritime Museums). Member of ICOM (International Council of Museums) for the three following organizations: MINON (ICOM Ecomuseums), ICR (ICOM Regional Museums), ILAM (Latin American Council for New Museology – Instituto Latinoamericano de Museos), from 1996
Member of CICOP (International Centre for the Preservation of the Architectural Heritage, Spain).
Representative before FADAM (Federation of Friends of Argentine Museums) for the Ushuaia Maritime Museum and the Southern Patagonian Ship.
Member of Asociación Española de Gestores del Patrimonio Cultural. Desde 1994.
Miember of REDIPAC: Red Iberoamericana del Patrimonio Cultural. Desde 2009.

Studies

2002 Postgraduate Diploma in Cultural Management, Heritage, and Tourism; Fundación Ortega y Gasset and Universidad Complutense of Madrid.
2001 Postgraduate Diploma “New Museums, New Museology for 21st century art” at Universidad de Zaragoza.
2001 Museologist. La Plata.Instituto Superior Nº 8
Archeology Technician Courses.INCAM (Cultural Institute of American History, Art, and Archeology), Buenos Aires.
1985 Maritime Ethnography at Roskilde (Denmark) and Oslo (with Thor Heyerdahl).
1982 Yacht Pilot at PNA (Argentine Naval Command)
1977 BA in Business Management at UADE (Universidad Argentina de la Empresa).
1970 High School Graduate at St. Peter’s School and Cambridge O Level.

Languages:English, Italian, French, Portuguese.

Conferences: (2003 and 2008).

2008

International Course: “Cultural Public Policies Management in American and European Countries”

August, 30: Resistencia, Chaco. ADiMRA 33rd Meeting of Museum Directors - Maritime Museum of Ushuaia. “An example of Private Management.”
MUSA Award, a Bronze Statuette by artist Walter Di Santo. Distinction awarded by ADiMRA to personalities prominent for their work in cultural fields. Resistencia, Chaco.

August, 25: Frigate Presidente Sarmiento. Antarctic Lecture: “Historic Whaler Settlements.”

June: USA. Whaling Symposium at the MysticSeaportMuseum and WhalingMuseum of New Bedford. Book release: Antártida: Asentamientos balleneros históricos [Antarctica: Historic Whaler Settlements]. Argentine Cultural Heritage.

April: Ushuaia. 32nd Meeting of Museum Directors of Argentine Museums. “The Beagle Channel as a Cultural and Landscape Route” and “Preventive Preservation of Old Cartography”

2007

September: Catamarca. Self-Sustainable Museums. 21st National Meeting of Museum Directors of Argentine Museums.

2006

September: Salta. CICOP Meeting. “The Beagle Channel as a Cultural and Tourist Route”; along with Architect Leonardo Lupiano. “The End of the Earth Intangible Heritage”, along with Architect Leonardo Lupiano.

August. International Polar Year and Conclusions of the ECOPOLAR Meeting of Ushuaia. School of Tourism, University of Morón. Along with the President of the Association of Professional Tourist Guides of Tierra del Fuego, Lic. Pablo Fanjul.

2005

November: Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz (9 – 11): Presentation “The Former Prison of Ushuaia: National Historic Monument and Self-Sustainable Museum.” Organized by the Cultural Heritage Department of Santa Cruz during the First Regional Conferences on Cultural Heritage, Patagonia, 2005.

Río Gallegos (4 – 5): Cultural Tourism National Meeting. Presentation: “The Beagle Channel: Centuries of Communication among Cultures at the End of the World. Itineraries and Cultural Routes. History and Identity. Local and Regional Development.” By Lic. Carlos Pedro Vairo and Architect Leonardo Lupiano.

Auckland, New Zealand. International Council of Maritime Museums: “Tenth Anniversary of the Maritime Museum of Ushuaia.”

October: General Roca, Río Negro. 28th Meeting of Argentine Museum Directors, organized by the Cultural Department of Río Negro and ADiMRA. "The Former Prison of Ushuaia: National Historic Monument and Self-Sustainable Museum."

September, 23: Alta Gracia. CICOP International Pre-Congress: “The Former Prison of Ushuaia: Self-Sustainable National Historic Monument.” HERITAGE, MUSEUMS, AND DOCUMENTS.

September, 8: Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego. First Meeting of Southern South Patagonian and MagellanMuseums. Topic: “Museum and Tourism.” “Maritime Museum of Ushuaia: A Museum in a Self-Sustainable Historic Monument.”

April, 22: Buenos Aires, CICOP, Manzana de las Luces. “Itineraries or Cultural Routes: The Beagle Channel – a History of 6,000 years as PopulationCenter and a Present of Cultural Tourism." With the Architect Leonardo Lupiano. PowerPoint presentation and panels.

April, 15: Ushuaia. Tenth Anniversary of the Maritime Museum of Ushuaia. “From a Building in Ruins to a ReferenceMuseum in Argentina.”

Other speakers: Architect Carlos Moreno (CNMMyLH); Architect Lupiano (CICOP); Amelia Arnelli (ICOM): “Museums in Our Reality”. Commodore Guillermo Estévez: “Argentina and the Prison: Past, Present and Future.”

2004

October, 22nd: Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz. Sixth Conferences on Museological Updating – Tourism and Museums. “The Recovery of Local History as a Tourist Resource.” Member of the Discussion Panel along with Museologist Ms. Ríos (Salta) and Architect Storero.

October, 9th: Villa La Angostura. FADAM, First Patagonian Meeting of Associations of Friends. “Museums and Associations of Tierra del Fuego”

August, 12th.Ria de Bilbao Maritime Museum, Spain.“Historic Whaler Settlements in Antarctica”.Extended to Southern Georgias and the commemoration of the 1904 settlement of the PESCA company. Invited by the Bilbao Maritime Museum.With the Ice Lady Patagonia.

August, 9th opening of the exhibition “Ushuaia, window to Antarctica” at the Ria de Bilbao.

July, 22nd.Instituto Hidrográfico Marinha Portugal.“Historic Whaler Settlements in Antarctica”.Extended to Southern Georgias and the commemoration of the 1904 settlement of the PESCA company. Special invitation made by Vice Admiral Carlos Antonio David da Silva Cardoso.

July, 21st Opening of the Exhibition at the Museu de Marinha, Lisbon.With photographs of the Expedition to Antarctica and Isla de los Estados. 2003.

July, 20th Opening of the Exhibition "Ushuaia, Window to Antarctica" aboard the Ice Lady Patagonia at the Lisbon port.

2003

October, 11th Maritime Museum of Cornwall, Fallmouth, Great Britain.Cooperation among Museums: National Naval Museum, Ushuaia Maritime Museum, and Ice Lady Patagonia for the Research Study:“Historic Whaler Settlements in Antarctica”.Extended to Southern Georgias.

September, 17thMontevideo, Uruguay.VII Iberian and Latin American Antarctic Historians Meeting.“Historic Whaler Settlements in Antarctica”.In collaboration with the National Naval Museum through its Director, Naval Captain Don Horacio Molina Pico. 2003. Corrientes, Argentina.June, 20th.Meeting of the Argentine Museum Directors Association.Cooperation among Museums: National Naval Museum, Ushuaia Maritime Museum, and Ice Lady Patagonia for the Research Study:“Historic Whaler Settlements in Antarctica”.

Present Research Work

Campaigns were made without interruption to Isla de los Estados and, in general to all over Tierra del Fuego and Antarctica, with the support of the Argentine Navy in private sailing ships,(1994-1997) and at present with ICE LADY PATAGONIA, surveying the historic human settlements of the region. 2003 Campaign.
Malvinas, South Georgias, and the Antarctic Peninsula. Research on Whaler Settlements. 2005 Campaign.
One of the most important findings was the Discovery of the Shipwreck of Don Luis Piedra Buena’s Brigantine “Espora” of and the shelter where he built the cutter "Luisito," which accomplished several feats at the Southern Sea.
Survey, study, transportation, and reconstruction of the mythical Lighthouse of San Juan de Salvamento, best known as the Lighthouse at the End of the World.
Survey of the shelters for shipwrecked sailors built by Don Luis Piedra Buena on Isla de los Estados.
Survey of Cape Horn.
Building of a Yamana bark canoe and navigation through the Beagle Channel.
Survey of Mitre Peninsula, its sealing factories, and shipwrecks.

Sports

Yacht Pilot (Argentine Naval Command).Trips throughout the world in sailing ships.Crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, Antarctica, the Mediterranean Sea, the Nile River, the Titicaca Lake, the Black Sea, the Dead Sea, the Aegean Sea, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, the North Sea, etc.
By this means, research on the relationship of man and the sea (or water), including: Vikings, Mediterranean Fishermen, Fishermen from the Coast of Brazil and their vessels, Canoes of Brazil, Wickerwork boats of Galicia, Reconstruction of a Yamana bark canoe, etc.
Diver. With Certificate for submarine archeology assistance.

Published books

El Mito y la Aventura (The Myth and the Adventure), 1985
The Yamana Canoe, the Marine Tradition,1994
The Prison of Ushuaia, 1996
The Prison of Ushuaia Vol. 2
Isla de los Estados y el Faro del Fin del Mundo, 1997
Ushuaia, your history, 1996
Oro en Tierra del Fuego, 1998
Shipwrecks in Cape Horn and Surroundings, 1998
Ushuaia, Maritime Museum, 1997
Patagonian $ Fueguian Cookbook, 1999
El Mate, Symbol of Friendship.1997
Handbook of Tierra del Fuego, 2002
Antarctica, historical museums and shelters
Antarctica, historical whaling Sites
Guia Parque Nacional Tierra del Fuego
Terra Australis, History of the cartography of Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia & Antarctica
Antartida. Travel Images
Ushuaia. Travel Images
Penguins

Maps

Historical Map of Cape Horn and its Shipwrecks
Historical Map of Isla de los Estados, its shipwrecks and historic human settlements.
Historical Map of the Antarctic Peninsula, its shipwrecks, museums, whaling bases, and posts.
Old Maps of Tierra del Fuego and the Explanation of their Evolution (2005).

Magazines

Since 1983, monthly article contribution to the magazine Barcos on Maritime Museums, Maritime Ethnography, Naval Archeology, and Maritime Traditions.
Article contribution to the French magazine Chasse-Mareé on Maritime Ethnography.
He contributes to other magazines:Week End, Aire y Sol, Bienvenidos a Bordo, Museological and Museum Topics (FADAM journals), etc.

-MUSA Award, a Bronze Statuette by artist Walter Di Santo. Distinction awarded by ADiMRA to personalities prominent for Their work in cultural fields. Resistencia, Chaco. August, 30, 2008.
-First Honorary Topman, Frigate President Sarmiento. November 23rd, 1992.
-In the year 2000 he receives the Naval Hydrographic Service of the Argentine Navy Prize for Spreading Maritime Interests.

Go to top