Casa Natal de Sarmiento - Museo Nacional

HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM AND BUILDING:

"Such has been the domestic home in which I grew up, and it is impossible that not to have a rebellious nature, has not left indelible impressions of morals, work and virtue in the soul of its inhabitants, taken in those sublime schools in that the most industrious industry, the purest morality, the dignity maintained in the midst of poverty, perseverance, resignation, were divided all the hours. " Domingo Faustino Sarmiento - Memories of Province.

First National Historic Monument, declared by National Law No. 7062 on September 7, 1910, opening its doors on April 4, 1911 as the Sarmiento House Museum.

House of colonial style, was raised by the effort of Doña Paula Albarracín de Sarmiento, mother of the hero since 1801.

In the plot, inherited from his parents, stood a large fig tree under which he installed his rustic loom, where he worked tirelessly, while watching the laborers and masons who built the house and paid, each week with the money obtained by your yarns.

The construction materials are typical of the time in this area: walls of mud walls and adobes, cane roofs supported on logs of poplars covered with mud and straw their floors of rammed earth.

Paula Albarracín married José Clemente Sarmiento, from whose union 15 children were born, of whom only five reached adulthood: Paula (1803), Vicenta Bienvenida (1804), Domingo Faustino (1811), María del Rosario (1812) and Procesa del Carmen (1818).

Over time the house, as is natural, underwent modifications attentive to family needs.

 

In 1862 Sarmiento was Governor of the Prov. Of San Juan using his home as a government acquiring the size and shape with which it is currently preserved.

 

In 1944 the province of San Juan was hit by a strong earthquake that destroyed almost all of the houses.

This historic house retains its original walls, which were consolidated (southern sector of housing). The north wing of the house was the one used by Sarmiento during the governorship; This one suffered the greatest destruction and it was necessary to reconstruct it according to the original design that the hero had depicted.

Research and dissemination of the life and work of Domingo F. Sarmiento in his socio-historical context and the validity of his thought in today's society are promoted.

Through interactive experiences and educational projects, meaningful learning is developed trying to experience the history, in order to better understand our cultural heritage.