Recently the Museum of Natural Science has been ranked as the Museum of Paleontology Geological Survey of Spain (IGME), an entity under the Ministry of Science and Innovation.
Jumilla This museum has been included, with six pages in Volume number five of the Museum of Paleontology Guides.
As reported by Herrero Cayetano director is the only official museum of the Murcia Region has achieved this status, falling even with its two highest categories, finding their collections properly organized, with panels that will help the museum didactically and aesthetically, other category is that there are unique and relevant parts of special fossil. "
Smith added that "it is noteworthy that until its recent renovation Section of Natural Sciences was confined to only one room in which were two windows, one devoted to minerals and the other fossils, plus the collection of Lepidoptera and Lencina beetle brothers, until it reopened two years ago, have dedicated two floors. One dedicated to the geology of the area with the increase in collections of minerals and fossils Angel Francisco Martínez Sebastián and the extraordinary contribution of the footprints of the Messinian deposits of the Hoya de la Sima and the Sierra de las Cabras, which have placed us as an international benchmark. "
From the direction of the Museum, Cayetano Smith, has welcomed "this important recognition, which logically meant at the time the unconditional support of the Department of Culture, who trusted us to carry out the renovations as both museums and museum also largely due to the diffusion of our museum by Professor Lorenzo Vilas Complutense University of Madrid. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla