La Geología en el Museo Municipal de Jumilla (Murcia, España)
- Vilas Minondo, Lorenzo
- Arias, Consuelo
- Herrero González, Cayetano
- Coruña, Francisco
- Herrero, Emilio
ISSN: 0583-7510
Year of publication: 2009
Tome: 103
Issue: 1-4
Type: Article
More publications in: Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Sección geológica
Abstract
The Jumilla Municipal Museum dedicated to the Natural Sciences and Ethnography, was opened in 2007. It is located in a mansion built in the XIX Century. The ground floor is dedicated completely to the regional Geology, mainly to the Jumilla-Yecla area, and it is subdivided in four exhibition halls: 1) the first one is dedicated to the time and space relationship in Geology. 2) The second one is dedicated to the local invertebrate fossils sites (607 speciments). 3) The third one shows 441 mineral and rock speciments of local and other Spanish areas origins. 4) The fourth one is the largest exhibition hall and shows local vertebrate ichnites and bones of Upper Miocene and Pleistocene ages (51 vertebrate bones and 20 gypsum and limestone metrical slabs with abundant ichnites). Here, large exhibition- pannels representing animal reprodutions at real scale are showed together with their environmental reconstructions. Once the Museum was opened, 10.000 people visited it during the first year.