The Port Museum occupies a handsome turn-of-the-century customs building in Ingeniero White, a few hundred metres from the water. It documents the history of the port and the immigrant communities who built it — Italians and Spaniards primarily, arriving from the 1880s onward to work the docks, the grain elevators, and the meat processing facilities.
The collection is genuinely interesting: tools, photographs, documents, domestic objects, and oral history recordings from the descendants of the first settlers. There is also a good section on the tango tradition that developed in this neighbourhood, with recordings and instruments. The museum runs occasional weekend events, including live music performances. Free entry.