Museo de Historia Natural "La Salle-Son Rapinya", Centro "La Salle", Pont d'Inca

Description

The collections of this Museum began in the first years of the XX century with the Herbarium of the Brother Bianor, eminent botanists, and a first collection of minerals of Majorca. Between 1950 and 1975 the Brother Emilio Castro took charge of the Museum; in this period, a lot of fossil remains of herbivore vertebrates found in the island of Majorca were incorporated to the collecions of the Museum. Between 1975 and 1986, the Brother León was the person (organizer also of the La Salle Museum from Paternal) who reordered the collections of the Museum in their current location. After his death that happened in 1986, the Brother Emilio Castro was again who succeeded him in the curation, aided by the Brother Miguel García, professor of Sciences of the School. As in the other schools of the Order, collections of insects, birds, shells, fossils, plants and minerals are exhibited. They are prominent, apart from the Herbarium of the Brother Bianor, a herbivore skeleton (Myotragus balearicus) found in Pollensa (Majorca), and several specimens of Rana pueyoi.