
The Museum of Natural Sciences of Valencia closed its doors last Monday, February 3, until next May. The reason, rehabilitation and modernization works that will incorporate more technology and a reformulation of the permanent exhibition.
This project was announced in December 2023 and it is now when the Valencia City Council will execute for 3 months the works to implement innovative interactive technologies, such as augmented reality, virtual tours and 3D movies.
In total, the project will be financed with 1.2 million euros, partly from European Next Generation funds for tourism rehabilitation and sustainability.
The new museum will feature two permanent interactive installations: “The History of Planet Earth” and “The Cave of Hands,” the city council has advanced in a statement.
Two interactive map applications integrated into touch screens will also be implemented for the paleontological sites and malacology rooms; the furniture necessary for the interactive installations; the audiovisual equipment for the museum’s projection room; and the supply of peripherals and computer systems.
And in case you didn’t know: the Natural Science Museum of Valencia, located in the Viveros Gardens, has a large European collection of fossils from the South American Pleistocene, which includes twenty skeletons and more than five thousand bones belonging to more than twenty different families of mammals.