Museum of the End of the World

The museum "Fin del Mundo" is the main attraction of Ushuaia, the southernmost city on earth, located in Argentina.

Until 1947, in fact, the city-forming enterprise of the city was the national prison, which is now closed, and in its former buildings is the Museum of the prison itself, as well as the regional museum Fin del Mundo - "Museum of the End of the World".

In total, the museum includes four main rooms: the first is associated with the history of the discoverers of Tierra del Fuego, it stores the wreckage of the ship "Duchess of Albania", old ship maps, as well as an exhibition of models of ships that sailed to these parts of the second room demonstrates the household items of the first settlers in the third room, the prison museum is located, where the household items of prisoners are presented, the results of their crafts - cigars, boxes, canes, etc. The fourth room is dedicated to ornithology - here are collected specimens of rare birds inhabiting about 180 species of fire.

Also in the "Museum of the End of the World" there is a library of books from the XVI to XIX centuries, including historical sketches of the discoverers of Tierra del Fuego and ordinary wanderers who visited these places.