The Science Museum of the University of Navarra takes to the streets

PHOTO: Manuel Castells

Tomorrow Saturday, June 4, the Science Museum of the University of Navarra will take to the streets with part of its collection of animals, shells, butterflies and minerals, which will be on display on Avenida Carlos III in Pamplona, next to the Monument of the Running of the Bulls. This initiative is part of project Engage promoted by the City Council of Pamplona and 11 other European cities, to which the academic center is also committed.

In total, the sample will have more than 20 pieces from all over the world, such as a shell used in the Caribbean to communicate by making it sound; or the Cipraea moneta or monetas shell, which served as currency in different countries along the Indian Ocean; and the Pinctada maxima, a shell from New Guinea, from which mother-of-pearl is extracted.

Also, among the birds of prey, the booted eagle, the buzzard, kestrels or an eagle owl will stand out. Mammals such as black monkeys, reptiles such as the caiman and the boa constrictor, and birds such as the egret, which can be observed in their showcases between 10 and 13 30 h.,

The exhibition will also include curious pieces such as the jaw of a shark, a sawfish, a piranha, a lobster, tropical butterflies, insects and beetles.

At the same time, the group Environmental Volunteers of the academic center will give three workshops on environmental Education aimed at children. They will consist of replicating animals with beads, an environmental drawing contest and the observation of starfish, sea urchins, beetles or butterflies with a magnifying glass at Anatomy .

On the other hand, the workshop in the capital of Navarra will include the possibility of subscribing to the Engage campaign at place del Castillo -the first 500 to do so will receive a gift savings kit- and an event with the Orfeón Pamplonés at the place Consistorial at 5 p.m.

Zoology Museum: 2nd most important collection in Spain.

The Museum of Natural Sciences of the University of Navarra, promoted by Dr. Rafael Jordana, was constituted in 1980 from several donated collections -such as the one from high school of the RR. PP. Capuchinos de Lecároz- and its own funds. It houses more than 9,000 specimens of diverse species of animals and minerals, as well as old containers, texts, tools and apparatuses used in the past in pharmacy, Chemistry and photography. The Botanical Herbarium and the Zoology Museum are also part of the collection. The latter, with more than 2,500,000 specimens of invertebrates, is the second most important collection in Spain, only surpassed by the National Museum of Natural Sciences of the CSIC.