Registro de Instituciones, Colecciones y Bases de Datos de Biodiversidad: Institución

Descripción

This Museum that is located in Valencia city, has four permanent areas of exhibition and a room of temporal exhibitions. The permanent exhibitions are:
1- Contribution of the scientists from Valencia to the knowledge of the History of the Science. This area includes an exhibition subarea devoted to the connections of the scientific development with the technological development.
2- History of the life. Palaeontological exhibition with an important representation of spanish and european fossils, as well as the excelent palaeontological collection «Rodrigo Botet» of pleistocene mammals from Argentina.
3- Malacology (Malacological collection «Roselló»). It is an important collection of shells with a representation of mollusks from all the World.
4- Ecosystems from Valencia. An interactive exhibition with audiovisual resources.
The Purpose of this Museum is:
According to the UNESCO criteriums that the Law of Cultural Patrimony from Valencia are: 1- To preserve, catalogue, restoration and neatly exhibition of collections, 2- To research in the collections or its specialties, 3- To organize periodic scientific exhibitions according to the nature of the Museum, 4- To write and publish catalogues and monographies about its funds, 5- To develop educational activities with respect to its contents, 6- To make other functions because of statute or administrative rules.