Provincial Museum of Natural Sciences President Dr. Arturo Illia, Natural sciences museum in Sarmiento Park, Cordoba, Argentina.

The Museo Provincial de Ciencias Naturales "Dr. Arturo Umberto Illía" is a natural sciences museum located inside Sarmiento Park in Córdoba, Argentina. It occupies several floors with exhibits covering fossils, meteorites, geological specimens, and the natural environment of the region.

The museum began in 1887 as part of the Polytechnic Museum created by Reverend Jerónimo Lavagna under Governor José Echenique, in a building of the Banco Nación on 27 de Abril street. Its collections were separated from the colonial history section in 1919, when it was reorganized into a natural history section housed in the Cabildo. After moves in 1949, 1955, 1963 and 1972, it closed in 2004 and reopened in 2007 in the former Foro de la Democracia building.

The museum is named after Arturo Umberto Illía, an Argentine doctor and former president born in the province. Walking through the halls, visitors get a sense of how natural science is treated here as something for everyone, not just specialists.

The museum sits inside Sarmiento Park, so a visit can easily be combined with time spent outdoors in the surrounding green area. Plan for enough time to go through all the floors, as the collection covers a wide range of topics.

Among the exhibits are fossils of South American megafauna, giant animals that roamed this part of the continent tens of thousands of years ago. The collection also features meteorites recovered from Argentine territory, which gives the museum a reach that goes well beyond local geology.