Horacio Quiroga Municipal Museum, Literature museum in San Ignacio, Argentina.
The Horacio Quiroga Municipal Museum is a literature museum in San Ignacio, Misiones, housed in the former home of the Argentine writer. The collection features furniture, photographs, tools, manuscripts, and personal belongings that document his life and work.
The house where the Uruguayan writer Horacio Quiroga lived and worked now holds the provincial museum named after him. The jungle around San Ignacio fed the stories collected in Cuentos de la selva, published in Buenos Aires in 1918. The museum keeps his furniture, photographs, tools, crockery and handwritten papers.
The museum displays personal possessions and furnishings in the rooms where the writer lived and worked. Visitors can see how the author spent his days and which spaces inspired his stories.
The museum stands on Calle Horacio Quiroga S/N, about 500 metres from the access arch to Escuadrón 11 of the Gendarmería Nacional, on the road toward Puerto Nuevo. The building has a brick step at the blue double doors and a small brick step at the entrance; the front section is finished in lighter stone.
The museum keeps the writer's furniture, photographs, tools, crockery and handwritten papers. Quiroga wrote Cuentos de la selva here, published in Buenos Aires in 1918, drawing on the jungle around San Ignacio. The building also has an auditorium and serves as an arts and social centre.
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