Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Introduction After the process of creation of the national and provincial museums in Argentina in the middle of the s. XIX, Pupio 1 analyzes how the appropriate context arose for the creation and expansion of municipal museums in the province of Buenos Aires during the irst half of the s. XX. This author marks an important difference that will be applicable to the case under study and that is that unlike the irst, ie the metropolitan museums, those located in small cities were practically always formed from particular collections or biographical, resembling the old cabinets of oddities. 2 This is how they guarded, almost indistinctly, different types of historical objects, including also of archaeological origin, from the ine arts and even, from the natural sciences. Indeed, this type of museum and the Sanvincetino museum in particular, contain objects and also various types of documents 3 among which stand out: photos, negatives, different types of documentary records (including old maps) and sometimes, also publications. In its great majority and as it happened with our case of study, the private collections of this have their origin in certain personages, generally transcendental within the history of the towns or cities of the province. This makes them not only the main donors but also the creators and directors of the institution, establishing, as a consequence, some of the strategies for the entry of new objects, heir selection and exhibition. As well as what happened at the national and provincial level, the institutions that were created at the municipal level, whether private or public, to protect, study and stage these collections, had as their primary objective to leave the private sphere, the house of family and be available for the communities of origin, in order to collaborate with the education of the public and then create an identity and a local culture. 1 The emergence of these museum of San Vicente (Figure 1) presented here followed these general guidelines and, in addition, can be classiied as a “single parent”. 1,4 In effect, it was the product of the performance of Mr. Martins, who is constantly remembered by the community as its creator since, in addition, a space where objects are exhibited in his memory always stands out in a privileged place in the house-museum, that were his property coinciding with what happens with other museums of the same style. 1,5 In this case it is about your desk and your valuables: your typewriter, your glasses, your watch, your mug, your knife, your mate, your camera, some of your papers, among the main ones. In the framework of the archaeological project that addresses the problem of identity processes in border areas and frames this work, the information gathered in the community and various means of dissemination generated by it coincide in deining the Sanvicentino Cultural Museum as a museum of manners rather than historical. This is due, essentially, to the characteristics of its origin, from a particular collection and, more especially, in accordance with its cultural-educational objectives focused on showing what it is to be Sanvicentino, as well as its subsequent growth, through of the collection of certain objects, aspects that we will develop later. In order to know the process of origin, its objectives and the making of the museum, as well as the type of practices (conservation and donation) that are linked to the objects stored there and the identity implications that are derived from them, we were guided by the history of the development of museums at the national and local level and, also, by the theory of the Objects Cultural Biography. 6 Although archeology already has a long history and its own methods to analyze the life history of objects through different approaches such as, for example, the sequence of events and decisions in the conformation of its operational chain, such as it has been demonstrated in numerous national and international works focused on the most technological aspects of objects; the method that implies the theory that objects can be addressed in his biography, almost in the same way as people, turns out to be more interesting for the objectives proposed here since it links historical, anthropological and archaeological information. This theory and method were postulated in 1986 by Kopytoff 7 and was developed especially throughout the 1990s by several authors, among which we highlight Gosden and Marshall, especially in what has to do with objects’ agency and their performance. 8 More recently and in spite of methodological dificulties for its application, it continues to be a valid method to reveal at least some of the relationships established between people and objects, 9 as in the case J His Arch & Anthropol Sci. 2018;3(3):374‒380. 374 ©2018 Lopez. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and build upon your work non-commercially. The case of the sanvicentino museum in the province of buenos aires, argentina Volume 3 Issue 3 - 2018 Mariel Alejandra Lopez Department of Filosofía Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina Correspondence: Mariel Alejandra López, Department of Filosofía Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tel: 5411-5287- 2632, Email marielarqueologia@yahoo.com.ar Received: February 26, 2018 | Published: June 12, 2018 Abstract From a case study in a research project dedicated to the problems of Archeology of identity in an area of historic border with the city of Buenos Aires, current the San Vicente Partido, we explores the practices of donation and conservation of objects. It has been conducted the survey in the Sanvicentine Cultural Museum, located in the city of San Vicente, head of eponymous partido, of all those considered to be antiques, either by its historical or archaeological value, as well as others who are placed there as an ornaments. This survey was also complemented by documentation of diverse nature and carrying out an anthropological interview to one of the neighbors who, with a small group, takes care of the museum and its attendance sporadically. The information exposed allows us to understand some of the main characteristics of the aforementioned practices, not only in this type of museums, but also in the setting-up of private collections such as the one that gave rise to this particular museum. Finally, we discuss the implications that these objects had and still have in the construction of identities in this type of social contexts. Keywords: museum, historical objects, archaeological objects, identities, san vicente, buenos aires, república argentina Journal of Historical Archaeology & Anthropological Sciences Case Report Open Access