The Museum of Geology at Seville (formerly known as Mineral Museum), owned and managed by the University of Seville, is located in the Faculty of Chemistry.
His beginnings were when he began his collection Antonio Machado Núñez, Professor of Mineralogy and Zoology, and grandfather of poets known as Seville Machado Brothers. The collection time was extended so that the professor created in 1850 the Cabinet of Natural History, which became an important volume on the interest the National Museum of Natural Sciences and numerous other Spanish and foreign naturalists.
Former Mineral Museum which houses a collection of over 4000 pieces, adding minerals, fossils and meteorites that posed a major source of scientific information for students and researchers, could be visited in the main building of the University until 1992, but occasion of the Universal Exposition of Seville was taken to Aragon Pavilion, where in the not too distant thought installing the Science Museum, a project that did not finish as expected.
After the failed project funds are placed in a basement of the University, where procrastination, time and poor conditions of the facility may be doing damage to a part of the materials available there.
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