A report by the General Audit Office (AGN, by its acronym in Spanish), which analyzes the work of the Ministry of Culture, reveals many irregularities related to heritage museums. The most frequent: outdated inventories and lack of photographic records.

One of the goals of the Ministry of Culture is to defend cultural identity and manage conservation policies, protection and enhancement of cultural heritage.

However, from the survey of several museums, the auditors identified that the inventory of the Museo Histórico Nacional del Cabildo y de la Revolución de Mayo dates from 1986 and that the photographic record of the artwork of the Museo Histórico Sarmiento is incomplete. The agency said that they still need to register 40% of the photographs in the inventory, which is equivalent to 160 images.

At the Museo de Bellas Artes, of the review of a sample of works, the AGN discovered that the author information, a photographic survey, data acquisition and the non-performing loans was missing.

In the Museo Histórico Nacional photos and negatives are not cataloged or inventoried. The library has 10% of its works without signing, and it was detected that in one of the tanks "there are goods without their nameplates and tagged books in some high shelves without signing labels since 1940."

The museum also claimed, through the Argentina embassy in Dominican Republic, four works, two from the Museo Histórico Nacional, and two from the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, who gave as a loan to be displayed on the Argentine booth at the Faro de Colón in Santo Domingo in 1992. The works had been given, in principle, for 5 months, and was extended for delivery until the year 2000, and despite the fact they requested the return in 2007 and 2008, "there has been no response yet." 

In the Casa Yrutia Museum, home to the sculptor Rogelio Yrurtia and his wife, the painter Lia Correa Morales, transferred to the State with its furnishings and artwork is also not exempt from the observations of the audit. Most of the sets of cultural property have no photographic records and the Yrutria book collection, with about 1,500 works, are not registered anywhere.

Moreover, the historic property is not incorporated into the inventory. These irregularities persisted despite an earlier report of the AGN, in 2000 in which they had recommended "to incorporate the existing goods into the property records of the photography industry and historical maps."

According to the report, elaborated on data from 2008 and the first half of 2009, and approved this year, the annual budget designated "has no evidence of unbundled of the museums, with the exception of the Bellas Artes", i.e., that there is no discrimination budget for each museum "impeding the verification and monitoring of the annual financial performance of each one."

Meanwhile, the auditors explained that the Ministry of Culture made an agreement on cultural cooperation with Telefónica de Argentina by which the communications firm undertook to finance the acquisition of computing elements (notebooks, printers, computers, etc.) while that the Ministry, in turn, disseminated the collaboration of the firm in the website and in all museums participating in the program. In this regard, the AGN warned that "the Ministry managed the purchase of computer equipment outside of the current regulations of state contracts."