Buenos Aires , Argentina ( CNN ) -- Decades after The Beatles first surged onto the international music stage , fans in Argentina are flocking to a new museum dedicated to the 'Fab Four ' that opened in the country 's capital this week . Museum creator Rodolfo Vazquez said he started his private collection after someone gave him the group 's `` Rubber Soul '' record when he was 10 years old . `` I listened to 'In My Life ' and I fell in love with The Beatles for all my life , '' he said . `` What I did was collect things , collect and collect like any fan , of football , stamps , action figures , whatever -- the little bit that I could get because in Buenos Aires there was n't a lot of material , '' Vazquez said . By 2001 , Vazquez secured a Guinness World Record for the `` largest collection of Beatles memorabilia . '' At the time , he had 5,612 items in the attic of his Buenos Aires home . The collection now contains more than 8,500 items , according to Vazquez . Remembering John Lennon : The interviews . Vazquez said he bought some of the material with his own money , but acquired most of it through exchanges with fans around the world . Now , for an entrance fee of about $ 2.50 , other aficionados can catch a glimpse of the collection , which Vazquez says is the first Beatles museum in Latin America . `` We 're visiting from Uruguay . We came and we saw that it was opening and we decided to come , '' visitor Rodrigo Guerra said . `` It 's very nice . It has everything . '' In addition to memorabilia on display , the complex where the museum is located also includes a thematic restaurant and a replica of the Liverpool bar where the legendary band got its start . The museum , which opened Monday , was still drawing a steady stream of people Friday -- many of them members of a younger generation that never saw the group perform live . Several wore Beatles T-shirts . One sported a `` Sgt . Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band '' tattoo . `` When the band played , I had n't been born , so I 'm looking for what my parents lived through , '' student Jimena Dieviataia said .
The museum 's creator has been collecting memorabilia since he was age 10 . His collection earns him a Guinness World Record in 2001 . Score: 6 The complex housing the museum also includes a replica of the bar where The Beatles played .