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Museum of Nature and Man
Location:
Calle Fuente Morales, s/n – 38003 Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Tel: 922 53 58 16. Fax: 922 29 43 46
Shop: 922 53 51 29
Opening Hours:
From Tuesday to Sunday, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Entry price:
Adults: 3.00 Euros
Students and Senior Citizens: 1.50 Euros
On presentation of a “Bono-Via” bus pass: 1.50 Euros
Children under 8: free
Sundays: free
Responsible Body:
The Regional Agency for Museums and Centres
Tenerife Cabildo (Island Government)
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O Museu
The large number of scientists in the 18th and 19th centuries (Darwin, Humboldt, Verneau, Lyell and Berthelot among others) who considered the Islands to be a privileged laboratory for conducting research in the field of nature and in particular, the human species, and the gradual accumulation of private and public collections formed the material and intellectual foundation on which the Tenerife Cabildo created two of the longest standing museums on Tenerife in the 1950s: the Tenerife Museum of Natural Sciences and the Tenerife Museum of Archaeology.
Both museums have now been merged, together with the Canary Island Institute of Bio-Anthropology, to create an ambitious and modern project: the Museum of Nature and Man, which offers the inhabitants of the island and the numerous visitors all the potential of contents, collections and knowledge that have accumulated over decades of research and scientific work, providing a stringently scientific but user friendly view of the natural wealth of the Canary Islands and the pre-Hispanic populations that inhabited them.
Services:
Library
Audio-guides
Patios and gardens
The large number of scientists in the 18th and 19th centuries (Darwin, Humboldt, Verneau, Lyell and Berthelot among others) who considered the Islands to be a privileged laboratory for conducting research in the field of nature and in particular, the human species, and the gradual accumulation of private and public collections formed the material and intellectual foundation on which the Tenerife Cabildo created two of the longest standing museums on Tenerife in the 1950s: the Tenerife Museum of Natural Sciences and the Tenerife Museum of Archaeology.
Both museums have now been merged, together with the Canary Island Institute of Bio-Anthropology, to create an ambitious and modern project: the Museum of Nature and Man, which offers the inhabitants of the island and the numerous visitors all the potential of contents, collections and knowledge that have accumulated over decades of research and scientific work, providing a stringently scientific but user friendly view of the natural wealth of the Canary Islands and the pre-Hispanic populations that inhabited them.
Services:
Library
Audio-guides
Patios and gardens
Águila pescadora
Colecciones de cerámica guanche
