Museum of Foreign Debt

Museum of Foreign Debt

Established	2005
Location	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Coordinates	34°36′0.623″S 58°23′55.061″W

The Museum of Foreign Debt (Spanish: Museo de la Deuda Externa) is a public museum located in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The museum's expositions and collection aim to depict the impact that foreign debt has had over argentine economical development throughout it's history.

Founded in 2005, the museum opened it's doors following the 1998–2002 Argentine great depression and the nationwide 2001 argentine riots. During those years, Argentina prompted the largest foreign debt default in history – approximately $100 billion USD.

The museum is sited within the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Economic Sciences's main building.

Museum's items follow the argentine national debt's history, recording it's development and growth since the first attempt of independence in 1810 to modern days.

See also

• Economy of Argentina

External links

• Clarin newspaper Archived 2009-09-04 at the Wayback Machine (Spanish)
• BBC (Spanish)
• Nunca Más (Never Again). The Museum of Foreign Debt Finnegan, Brian. The Public Historian. Santa Barbara Vol. 28, Iss. 2, (Spring 2006): 113-117.
• The Museum of Foreign Debt, a museum without a collection. Maza, María Del Carmen and Cordero, Graciela Weisinger