Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Granollers

Description

The Natural Sciences Museum of Granollers is a natural history museum located in the city of Granollers, in the Vallés Oriental region (Catalonia, Spain) whose thematic areas are paleontology, geology, botany and, especially, zoology. In the field of zoology, in addition to the management and documentation of the heritage fund, the Museum coordinates, through the BiBio Research Group (Biodiversity and Bioindicators), different monitoring programs based on citizen science which annually collects thousands of observations, feeding one of the most important biodiversity databases in southern Europe. The origin of the Museum dates back to 1982, with the creation of the Natural Sciences Area of ​​the Granollers Museum and it obtained its own entity in 1987 with the inauguration of the headquarters of the La Tela building, a modernist tower built in 1912 by the architect J. Batlle i Anfres, with two floors and an attic and surrounded by a garden that houses a small sample of plant communities from the region, accompanied by some of the most common rocks and some live animals. Since 2012, the Museum has occupied two buildings, the aforementioned La Tela building, and a new building built behind it, with an auditorium, collection warehouses, exhibition rooms and a planetarium. The Museum has a library with more than 8,000 items and is also the headquarters of the Natural Sciences Section of the Documentation Center of the Montseny Natural Park with around 5,500 cataloged documents.