Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Atarfe

Municipal natural sciences museum in Atarfe, housed in the Ermita de los Tres Juanes, with minerals, fossils and other collections; temporarily closed.

Temporarily closed

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Temporarily closed. The museum directory of the Junta de Andalucía lists the museum as temporarily closed. No reopening date is recorded.

About the museum

The museum is housed in the Ermita de los Tres Juanes, a building erected in 1941 on the Cerro del Castillejo at the entrance to Sierra Elvira. The hermitage was dedicated to Saint John the Evangelist, Saint John the Baptist and Saint John of God, but it never had a religious use. It was restored in the 1990s and turned into a sociocultural centre; it retains a Mudéjar coffered ceiling and is a local landmark that appears on the municipal coat of arms.

The natural sciences museum brings together collections of geology, palaeontology, botany and zoology, with minerals, ornamental stones, rocks, fossils and marine molluscs. The building also has an audiovisual room.

According to the museum directory of the Junta de Andalucía, the museum is currently listed as temporarily closed. No reopening date has been published.

Highlights

Ermita de los Tres Juanes, built in 1941 on the Cerro del Castillejo
Mudéjar coffered ceiling inside
Collection of minerals and rocks
Fossils and marine molluscs
Audiovisual room

Permanent exhibition

Colección de ciencias naturales – Collection of minerals, rocks, fossils and marine molluscs, with a photographic exhibition of native fauna (museum temporarily closed).