Museo y Archivo Histórico Regional de las Colonias Judías

The Museum was created in October 1985 by a municipal ordinance of the Junta de Fomento de Villa Domínguez, and since then its collection has been enriched through donations made over the years by various families descending from the settlers who came to this region, from institutions that made up the institutional network of the population centres located in the area of the colonies, documents rescued from schools, libraries and cooperatives that disappeared, etc.

The "Museo y Archivo Regional de las Colonias Judías del Centro de Entre Ríos", located in Villa Domínguez preserves valuable documents, photographs, books and objects that keep alive the memory of the deeds promoted by Baron Mauricio de Hirsch through the Jewish Colonization Company Jewish Colonization Association.

The contents of the Museum, its collection, its documentary collections and its library have a very high value from a patrimonial, historical, social and sentimental point of view for the region and for the whole country, and particularly for the national and international Jewish community, and it is the subject of consultation and research by numerous scholars of Jewish and social-historical subjects in Argentina.

The building that currently houses the Museum is the result of a donation: when the Mutualidad Sanitaria Israelita ceased to operate and was dissolved, its authorities donated the building of the former Dr. Yarcho Pharmacy to the Junta de Fomento de Villa Domínguez in 1996 to serve as the seat of the Museum, expressly stating in the clauses of the donation that it could not be used for any other purpose. Thanks to the economic and professional contribution of different people and institutions, during 2005 and 2006 a project of conservation of its collection and restoration and enhancement of the building was carried out, under the coordination of the Asociación Religiosa y Cultural Israelita Lamroth Hakol, which allowed it to reopen in November 2006.

Since that year, the Museum has also had an annex in the shed of the ex-Hotel de Inmigrantes, which was acquired in a judicial auction by the Fundación Judaica and loaned to the Museum in July 2007. The annexe exhibits carriages, agricultural implements and other elements that were used in the Colonies for farm work.