Geological Museum (Museo Geologico) description and photos - Chile: Antofagasta (Topic)

Geological Museum (Museo Geologico) description and photos - Chile: Antofagasta. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Museo Geologico.

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The Geological Museum named after Professor Umberto Fuensalida Villegas is run by the Catholic University of the North. Here is a collection of exhibits on paleontology, mineralogy and geology. The museum is located in the premises of the university. In its three main halls, a permanent exhibition was opened: samples of minerals, minerals and fossils found in the northern part of Chile.

The first collection of the museum was presented in 1972. Two years later, it became possible to officially open the first Chilean Geological Museum at the Institute of Geological Research in Antofagasta. At the end of 2012, after a two-year reconstruction, the doors of the museum were reopened to visitors. Recent transformations carried out in the museum turned it into one of the country's most modern centers for the study of geology and paleontology. Its exposition contains 474 samples of fossils and 570 samples of rocks and minerals.

Here you can see fossil remains of prehistoric animals, minerals and other elements extracted from the bowels of the earth, as well as samples of meteorites. You will enter the world that reigned millions of years ago on this planet, learn about prehistoric animals that lived on the sea and on land in distant times, see the remains of reptiles from the Jurassic period.

During the grand opening, its director is doctor Guillermo Chong Diaz - gave a short overview of the forty-year history of the museum, from its inception to the present day.

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