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) was opened on April 28, 2005, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The museum highlights the dangers of borrowing money from abroad. There are no English translations in the museum, everything is in the Spanish language. The 1998–2002 Argentine great depression that drove the 2001 riots in Argentina prompted the largest foreign debt default in history – approximately $100 billion USD.

The museum is located at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires, and shows the debt's history, how it grew, and the responsible parties for each action since the first attempt of independence in 1810. The museum has no entrance fee.

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