The pages of this book offer the reader A different History of the Spanish National Museum of Natural Science. An easy , direct, and entertaining text enhaced by the accompanying images, it is a story of discoveries whose readings flows like a journet throug time.Many events transpired within the four walls of the museum, and many characters played leading roles in this story.
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Index
- The museum and its history
- A museum with lights and shadows
- Presentation
- In the beginning
- Graellsia isabelae, the Queen’s
‘butterfly’
- Colección de las producciones de los
mares de España by Sáñez Reguart
- Quadro del Perú, an extraordinary work
- 1899-1900. Manuel and Fernando Martínez de la
Escalera’s Journey to the Middle East
- At the turn of the 20th century
- The Okapi
- Ignacio Bolívar y Urrutia
(Madrid, 1850-Mexico, 1944)
- Our Megatherium
- Commission for Palaeontological and
Prehistoric Research
- Retrospective Exhibition on Natural History at
the Royal Botanical Garden (1929)
- Sixth International
Congress of Entomology
(Madrid, 1935)
- The Spanish Civil War
- Reorganizing the Museum
- José Clavijo y Fajardo, Deputy Director of the Royal Cabinet of Natural History and literary figure
- Establishment of the Spanish Institute of
Entomology in 1941
- Antonio de Zulueta,
a pioneer of genetic
studies in Spain
- The future
- Juan Bautista Bru de Ramón, painter and taxidermist of the Royal Cabinet
- Colección de láminas
que representan los
animales y monstruos
del RGHN de Madrid
con una descripción
individual de cada
- A slow walk towards
nowhere
- October 1973. Visit of
the Crown Prince and
Princess of Japan
- Antonio de Ulloa and the Royal House of Geography and Natural History Cabinet
- The Alpine Biological Station at El Ventorrillo
- Reforming the Museum
- A recovered treasure. The van Berkhey Collection
- The Museum publishes
- Isabel Izquierdo Moya (Huelva, 1946 Madrid, 2015)
- A signature museum
- Two museums, two destinies: the Prado Museum and the National Museum of Natural Sciences
- As time went on
- Djehuty Project
- The Biodiversity exhibition
- Colophon
- Directors and headquarters
- Other stories about the museum
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