Museo Tomás Espora, Naval museum in Parque Patricios, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The Museo Tomás Espora occupies the house the corsair Tomás Espora built around 1824 on land he bought from his aunt María Luisa Ugarte. Its 45 cm adobe walls and wooden beams and columns stand on a raised base, with a simple facade whose ground-floor windows carry ogee ornaments above the lintels. A two-slope French-tile roof is split by a lookout balcony, and the ground floor is brick while the upper floor is pine on brick.

Tomás Espora, a corsair who became the first Argentine officer to circumnavigate the world, bought a 36,682 m² plot from his aunt María Luisa Ugarte in 1823 near the Corrales del Alto and built this house around 1824. He died here in 1835 at 35. Henriqueta Macary donated it to the state in 1959, and it was declared a National Historic Monument by Decree 1690 of 3 March 1961.

The museum bears the name of Tomás Espora, a corsair and later naval colonel, not an admiral. Its rooms hold a painting of one of his battles, replicas of his uniform and that of Admiral Brown, and part of the hull of a ship he commanded. A console table from the original furnishings remains in the room where he died and was laid out.

The museum is located on Avenida Caseros and is easily accessible by public transport serving that area of the city. Guided tours through the rooms provide better insight into the displayed collections.

The courtyard statue of Espora by Juan B. Leone stands 2.70 m tall, not life-size, beside a mast and commemorative plaques on reddish tiles. Espora was a corsair and naval colonel, never an admiral. Brown attended his wake here and asked for the coffin to be opened, doubting his death.