Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales | |
Established | 1771 |
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Location | Madrid, Spain |
Coordinates | 40°26′28″N 3°41′25″W / 40.441036°N 3.690292°W |
Type | Natural history museum |
Visitors | 500,000 per year |
Director | Rafael Zardoya |
Website | www |
The National Museum of Natural Sciences (Spanish: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales) is the national museum of natural history of Spain. It is situated in the center of Madrid, by the Paseo de la Castellana. It is managed by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).
History[]
The museum traces back its origin to the Charles III. The gabinete was refounded as Real Museo de Historia Natural in 1815.[1] It changed names until its current denomination,[2] received in 1913.[3] The museum originally hosted a collection donated by a Spanish merchant, . In 1867, some facilities were separated to give birth to other museums (Archeology, Botanic Garden, Zoologic Garden). In 1987 the museum was restructured and enlarged with funds from two smaller museums.
, created in 1771 byCollection[]
Some of the more relevant components of the museum collections are:
- A Megatherium brought from Argentina in 1789.
- A Diplodocus donated by Andrew Carnegie to Alfonso XIII of Spain in 1913.[4]
African Elephant hunted by Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 17th Duke of Alba
Section of Natural History
Diplodocus and other fossilsSection of Natural History
Megatherium skeletonSection of Natural History
Stegosaurus skeletonSection of Natural History
Iberomesornis modelMediterranean section
GorgonianMediterranean section
Giant squid model
Research[]
The research departments of the museum are:
- Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology
- Evolutionary Ecology
- Paleobiology
- Vulcanology
- Geology
References[]
- Citations
- ^ Martín Albaladejo 2014, p. 4.
- ^ "Historia del Museo". Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
- ^ De Beni, Matteo (2019). "Georges Cuvier en España. La traducción de José Garriga y Baucís de Lecciones elementales de la historia natural de los animales". Quaderns de Filologia: Estudis Lingüístics. Valencia: Universitat de València. 24: 323. ISSN 1135-416X.
- ^ Pérez García, A. y Sánchez Chillón, B., "Revista Española de Paleontología" vol.24 nr.2, page 133-148 (2009) Historia de Diplodocus carnegii del MNCN: primer esqueleto de dinosaurio montado en la Península Ibérica Archived 2013-06-12 at the Wayback Machine (in spanish).
- Bibliography
- Martín Albaladejo, Carolina (2014). "El Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales y la enseñanza de las Ciencias de la Naturaleza en España: las colecciones como herramienta didáctica" (PDF). Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. 1. ISSN 0366-3272.
External links[]
- Media related to Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales at Wikimedia Commons
- Website
- Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, MNCN - CSIC at Google Cultural Institute
- Museums in Madrid
- Natural history museums in Spain
- National museums of Spain
- Geology museums in Spain
- Buildings and structures in El Viso neighborhood, Madrid