Museo Evita

This guide to the Museo Evita in Buenos Aires starts with the building's original purpose, a shelter for pregnant women run by Eva Perón's own foundation, shut down by soldiers in 1955. You'll hear how, after her death in 1952, an embalmer named Pedro Ara spent nearly a year preserving her body, and how a colonel named Moori Koenig later decided the embalmed remains were too dangerous to leave in public. Listen for where he hid her, and how far her body traveled before it ever reached this museum.