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Last Wednesday 18 is held in our town the International Museum Day, visiting the various museums in Jumilla.

Attended by more than two dozen people, one of the groups IES Arzobispo Lozano students who were accompanied by their teacher Carmen Guardiola.

For the director of the Museum of Ethnography Cayetano Herrero "the day was fruitful, both for public assistance, for the knowledge of most people who visited us because they got a pleasant surprise, mostly to verify the existence of material unknown to them and the importance within the scientific world, so welcomed. "

For his part, director of the Museum of Archaeology Emiliano Hernandez said that "it is important to celebrate this day because the museum is about the citizens."

"With the guided tours is what you get visitors to become attached to certain parts of our cultural and archaeological heritage by the mere fact of being exposed along with others go unnoticed, but when he tells visitors the story of the finding, the details movement and the vicissitudes of the restoration, are surprised and assume as their own, "says Hernandez.

From the Municipal Museum Jerónimo Molina want to "express our appreciation for our fellow countrymen to explain our rich heritage and to teach this 'treasure', which belongs to everyone and that everyone should know, because as Don Jerome himself said:" not loves the unknown. "

Herrero Cayetano explained in two tours in the morning and afternoon, the geology, paleontology and minerals, making them understand the importance of our geological heritage with Celia Mines, the jumillita and apatite, and the paleontological fossil footprints at the sites of the Hoya de la Sima and the Sierra de las Cabras, and the rest of the paleontological heritage of our municipality, thanks to the generosity of Sebastián Martínez, we at the Museum, as well as applies to the mineral collection of Angel Francisco who recently donated to the Museum.

In the evening also visit the Ethnographic Museum.

To explain the Boards of butterflies and beetles, we had the invaluable assistance of the municipal technical Lencina Francisco, who as head of this section of the museum, said the interesting collection of butterflies which recently donated to the Municipal Museum Francisco Gonzalez along several months will rotate with new copies of both Francisco González as Lencina siblings.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla