Museo
Nacional de Ciencias
Naturales, ES
Jose'
Gutierrez Abascal
2, 28006 Madrid,
Spain
www.mncn.csic.es
contact
person:
Pilar
Lopez Garcia-Gallo
tel. +34.91.4111328,
fax +34.91.915645078
email mcnl318@mncn.csic.es
The
Museo Nacional
de Ciencias
Naturales
is a public
organisation
founded in 1771,
and the most
important research
centre in the
field of natural
sciences in
the country.
It carries out
multi-disciplinary
studies aiming
at the improvement
of knowledge
and conservation
of the natural
heritage. The
museum hosts
collections
of great storical
and scientific
value which
constist of
about 6 million
objects such
as insects,
molluscs, fish,
amfibians, rettils,
mammals, fossils,
minerals and
rocks.
The
museum has set
the following
objectives
as its principal
lines of action:
i) to contribute
to the improvement
of awareness
of the diversity
existing in
the natural
world;
ii) to encourage
the diffusion
of scientific
activity, the
display of collections
and the understanding
of the value
of the natural
heritage; iii)
to improve the
public’s
perception of
the importance
of science and
its understanding
of the field;
iv) contribute
to the raising
of sensibility
about the protection
of natural heritage;
and
v) promote learning
of the natural
sciences for
people of all
ages and levels
of sophistication.
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