From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales

Natural history museum in Madrid, Spain

Field	Value
name	National Museum of Natural Sciences
native_name	Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
native_name_lang	es
image	Palacio de las Artes e Industrias (Madrid) 01.jpg
mapframe-zoom	12
caption	Museum's building
coordinates
established	1771
location	Madrid, Spain
type	Natural history museum
visitors	500,000 per year
director	Rafael Zardoya
website

| mapframe-zoom = 12

The National Museum of Natural Sciences () 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).

History

The museum traces back its origin to the **, created in 1771 by Charles III. The gabinete was refounded as Real Museo de Historia Natural in 1815. It changed names until its current denomination, received in 1913. 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

Some 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.

Image:Elefante disecado MCNM.jpg|African elephant hunted by Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 17th Duke of Alba Image:Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Madrid)-Sala de Historia Natural.jpg|Section of Natural History Diplodocus and other fossils Image:Megatherium americanum1.jpg|Section of Natural History Megatherium skeleton Image:Museo Nacional de Cencias Naturales Stegosaurus.jpg|Section of Natural History Stegosaurus skeleton Image:Iberomesornis-model.jpg|Section of Natural History Iberomesornis model Image:Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Madrid)-Gorgonia.jpg|Mediterranean section Gorgonian Image:Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Madrid)-Architeuthis.jpg|Mediterranean section Giant squid model

Research

The research departments of the museum are:

Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology
Evolutionary Ecology
Paleobiology
Vulcanology
Geology

References

;Citations ;Bibliography

References

"Historia del Museo". Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales.
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''". [[University of Valencia.
Pérez García, A. y Sánchez Chillón, B., "Revista Española de Paleontología" vol.24 nr.2, page 133-148 (2009) [https://www.sepaleontologia.es/revista/anteriores/REP%20(2009)%20vol.%2024/2/02.%20Perez%20&%20Sanchez.pdf Historia de ''Diplodocus carnegii'' del MNCN: primer esqueleto de dinosaurio montado en la Península Ibérica] {{Webarchive. link. (2013-06-12 (in spanish).)

Info: Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

museums-in-madrid natural-history-museums-in-spain national-museums-of-spain geology-museums-in-spain buildings-and-structures-in-el-viso-neighborhood,-madrid

Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report