Museu Geològic Del Seminari De Barcelona
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The Geological Museum of the Barcelona Seminary (, MGSB) is a
natural history museum A natural history museum or museum of natural history is a scientific institution with natural history scientific collection, collections that include current and historical records of animals, plants, Fungus, fungi, ecosystems, geology, paleo ...
situated inside the Barcelona Conciliar Seminary in
Barcelona, Spain Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a pop ...
. The museum was established in 1874 and works to promote the study and better understanding of
paleontology Paleontology, also spelled as palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of the life of the past, mainly but not exclusively through the study of fossils. Paleontologists use fossils as a means to classify organisms, measure ge ...
. The Museu Geològic del Seminari de Barcelona specialization is fossilised invertebrates from different geological periods.


History

Before the existence of the Geological Museum of the Barcelona Seminary, there was the Barcelona Natural History
Cabinet of curiosities Cabinets of curiosities ( and ), also known as wonder-rooms ( ), were encyclopedic collections of objects whose categorical boundaries were, in Renaissance Europe, yet to be defined. Although more rudimentary collections had preceded them, t ...
in 1817. The present museum was founded in 1874 by Jaume Almera i Comas (1845-1919), the first museum director and depended on the Barcelona Seminary Seminari Conciliar de Barcelona. Since 1885, the museum manufactures geological maps of the
Province of Barcelona Barcelona (; ) is a province of eastern Spain, in the center of the autonomous community of Catalonia. The province is bordered by the provinces of Tarragona, Lleida, and Girona, and by the Mediterranean Sea. Its area is .

Collection

The museum's collection holds more than 86,576 fossils taxon (December 2020), a library with more than 17,000 books, a laboratory, and historical archive. The institution has a large collection of fossil
malacology Malacology, from Ancient Greek μαλακός (''malakós''), meaning "soft", and λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study", is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (molluscs or mollusks), the second-largest ...
, corals, sponges, brachiopods, trilobites, and others. There is a large display case with a complete
Tetralophodon ''Tetralophodon'' ("four-ridged tooth") is an extinct genus of "tetralophodont gomphothere" belonging to the superfamily Elephantoidea, known from the Miocene of Afro-Eurasia. Taxonomy and evolution The genus ''Tetralophodon'' (meaning "four-rid ...
in the main exhibition hall. The Geological Museum of the Barcelona Seminary contains over 700 fossil holotypes.


See also

*
List of museums in Barcelona This is a list of museums in Barcelona, the capital city of Catalonia, Spain. Defunct museums * Museu Barbier-Mueller d'Art Precolombí *Museu Clarà *Museu d'Art Modern *Museu de la Ciència de Barcelona *Museu de la Moto *Museu del Calç ...


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