Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre
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Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre (MNH), Museum of Nature and Man in English. Is a museum in Tenerife. Based in Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain) it has significant archaelogical finds of the islands. This museum is considered the best sample that contains the objects Prehispanic Canary Islands. Besides the Museum collects abundant paleontological collections, marinas, botanical, entomological and terrestrial vertebrates in an excellent state of preservation, and is considered the best Naturista Library of the Canary Islands.
It He integrates repays the Archaeological Museum of Tenerife, Bioantropología's Canary Institute and the Museum of Natural Sciences of Tenerife. The museum is in the downtown placed in the former Civil Hospital, a building that constitutes a sample of the neoclassic architecture of Canaries. The archaeological section was founded in 1958.
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[edit] History
Founded in 1958 with funds from the Section of Archeology and Anthropology Museum of the City of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. His first was the provincial commissioner and director Luis Diego Cuscoy, who all joined a unique collection of archaeological material and human remains from prehistory to Tenerife. During the decade of the sixties to raise funds from other geographic materials (Sahara, Ethnography and Archeology African and American). At present the Museum with archaeological remains of prehistoric both Tenerife and the rest of the Canary Islands and other cultures.
[edit] Permanent exhibitions
In the space museografic stands out the section dedicated to the archaeology and to the Funeral aboriginal World. This museum also possesses relies on a great collection of crania original inhabitants of the Canary Isles not mummified, placed in an immense showcase store window, as well as crania of goats that the original inhabitants of the Canary Isles were burying in the tombs of his your kings guanche (Menceyes).
Also it possesses a great collection of ceramic and Mummies original inhabitants of the Canary Isles. Between the mummies that remain one finds San Andrés's famous Mummy, one of the best preserved guanche. Besides also they are in the museum fossil of prehistoric animals both of Canaries and of the rest of the world, as the Giant Lizard of Tenerife (Lacerta goliath and Lacerta maxima), the Giant Rate of Tenerife (Canariomys Bravoi) and other animals as a tooth of a Megalodon.
During the decade of the sixties raise funds for materials from other geographic areas (Sahara, Ethnography and Archeology Pre African and American, this last section has a rich sample of pre-Columbian cultures such as Aztec, Maya, Olmec, Toltec, etc).
[edit] Featured Pieces
Its formidable collection of mummies, ornaments, models of Aboriginal settlements and pottery. Ranging from the beginnings of the Guanche culture to the conquest of the Canaries. Some of its key parts are:
- Guanche mummies
- Stone Zanata (rock with Berber-Punic inscriptions)
- Ceramic and trousseau Guanche
- Mediterranean and Aegean amphoras found on the shores canarias
[edit] Projects scheduled
The Archaeological Museum of Tenerife part in the Great Exhibition on mummies in 2010 to be held in Granada (Spain). The exhibition will feature pieces from various civilizations and geographical environments. The American 'boat' of 8000 years old. There could also be a representation of the sarcophagi of Egypt, the arid zones of the Andes, the marshes of Denmark, the 'men of the ice' (like the mummy Ötzi), which appear from time to time in the cemeteries of Spanish and Guanche mummies in the museum.
[edit] External links
- Independent Organ of Tenerife Museums and Centers.
- The MNH in Google Maps
- Great Exhibition on mummies 2010
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