The Granollers Museum of Natural Sciences, in
Granollers (in
Vallès Oriental, Spain), covers the fields of
palaeontology
Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...
,
geology,
botany,
meteorology, and, in particular,
zoology.
[">] In addition, the Museum is the headquarters of the Montseny Natural Park Documentation Centre (natural sciences section) and of the Catalan Butterfly Monitoring Scheme; it also manages the Granollers Meteorological Station and the Can Cabanyes Environmental Education Centre. The Granollers Museum of Natural Sciences, part of the
Barcelona Provincial Council Local Museum Network The Barcelona Provincial Council Local Museum Network ( ca, Xarxa de Museus Locals), also known as ''Catalonia’s Biggest Museum'', is a tool for support and collaboration from and for the museums of the province, which makes available to municipal ...
, was from October 2008 to May 2012.
Catalan Butterfly Monitoring Scheme
The Catalan Butterfly Monitoring Scheme is a project to monitor the
butterfly populations in order to detect more precisely changes in their population based on weekly repetitions of visual census using fixed transects, to later relate said changes to the different environmental factors.
Granollers Meteorological Station
The Granollers Meteorological Station has worked uninterruptedly since its creation, in 1950, by the
Granollers Museum The Granollers Museum (Granollers, Vallès Oriental) is a heterogeneous collection comprising archaeology, decorative arts, ethnography, numismatics and Ancient art, ancient, Modern art, modern and contemporary art. The Museum, which is part of the ...
, and is part of the network of the National Institute of Meteorology of the Spanish Ministry of the Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs.
Can Cabanyes Environmental Education Centre
The Can Cabanyes natural area is located to the south of
Granollers, between the
Montmeló
Montmeló () is a municipality in the comarca of Vallès Oriental, within the Barcelona metropolitan area, in Catalonia, Spain. It contains the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, which is the home of the Formula One Spanish Grand Prix
The Spani ...
road and the right bank of the
Congost River
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, and gets its name from the farmhouse once located on the property. Both environmental recovery and landscape improvement measures, such as riverbank recovery, the regeneration of existing woodland and the creation of artificial wetlands, have been carried out, which has led to an increase in the naturalisation and environmental diversification of the riverbank.
See also
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Granollers Museum The Granollers Museum (Granollers, Vallès Oriental) is a heterogeneous collection comprising archaeology, decorative arts, ethnography, numismatics and Ancient art, ancient, Modern art, modern and contemporary art. The Museum, which is part of the ...
References
External links
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Can CabanyesCatalan Butterfly Monitoring Scheme
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Museums in Catalonia
Natural history museums in Spain
Nature centers
Granollers