Museo Nacional del Cabildo

This guide to the Museo Nacional del Cabildo in Buenos Aires questions a scene every Argentine schoolchild reenacts: a rainstorm on May 25, 1810, said to have soaked the crowd outside as Buenos Aires debated independence. It traces the one real weather account historians have, from a meeting inside these walls three days earlier, and asks where the umbrella image actually came from. You'll also hear how little of the building itself survived intact, rebuilt from old drawings after two rounds of demolition.