ASdTorrevieja Information - tourist guide: Torrevieja’s Natural History Museum

Torrevieja’s Natural History Museum
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A. Michael on 13 April, 2010 05:59:00

Located at the old RENFE station exhibition room.

A unique and particular museum dedicated to all population in general and to the
tourists, with a special focus in educational community. Certainly, a clear
exponent of sailing and fishing traditions in the town of salt.
Place: Old RENFE station exhibition room.
Opening Hours: Monday to Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 5 p.m. to 8
p.m.
Sunday and hollidays, from 11a.m. to 2p.m.
Price: Free entrance
The Torrevieja’s Natural History Museum collection counts with following
sections: Mammals, Ornithology, Herpetology, Ichthyology, Marine Invertebrates
and Malacology. Skeletons of bottle nosed and striped dolphins, whales,
collections of original nests (which were abandoned after the breeding time) and
replicates of eggs of a total of 17 typical birds in the area, loggerhead
turtles and marine invertebrates from the Mediterranean sea which have been
collected throughout the years from the Torrevieja’s coast.
It is also worth mentioning it has a collection of over 300 species of marine
molluscs (mainly gastropods) and about 20 corals, all of them collected from the
coast of the Zanzibar island  (Tanzania) during the period between 1972 and 1975
by the Dutch couple Charlotte and Elbertus Fiege, which were donated in the year
2005 to the Torrevieja’s town hall. A general collection made of molluscs
mainly coming from malagologic areas of the Indo-Pacific, Athlantic-African and
of course Mediterranean seas. Finally, its Ictiology collection is worth a
visit, as it counts with sea horses, needlefishes, cat sharks, breams, and many
other species of the ocean as well as dioramas and scale models of maritime and
fishing traditions in  Torrevieja.
Map:
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