Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
The National Museum of Natural Sciences (Spanish: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales) is a natural history museum in Madrid, Spain. Dependent on the Ministry of Science, it is one of the National Museums of Spain, and it is managed by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).
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| 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 |
History
editThe museum traces back its origin to the Real Gabinete de Historia Natural, created in 1771 by 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, Pedro F. Dávila. 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.
Collection
editSome of the more relevant components of the museum collections are:
- The holotype specimen of Megatherium americanum, brought from Argentina in 1789.
- A Diplodocus donated by Andrew Carnegie to Alfonso XIII of Spain in 1913.[4]
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Section of Natural History
Diplodocus and other fossils -
Section of Natural History
Megatherium skeleton -
Section of Natural History
Stegosaurus skeleton -
Section of Natural History
Iberomesornis model -
Mediterranean section
Gorgonian -
Mediterranean section
Giant squid model
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Research
editThe research departments of the museum are:
References
edit- 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. 24. Valencia: Universitat de València: 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
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Media related to Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales at Wikimedia Commons- Website
- Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, MNCN - CSIC at Google Cultural Institute
