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 This museum has a
didactic and university character fundamentally,
although the beauty and modernity of its facilities,
as well as the quality and representativeness of some
of their units make of the greater attention on the
part of collectors and fans deserving. In the sample
of simple and pleasant way the formation, way of
crystallization and utility of each mineral, and even
some particular properties as it is the case of the
luminescence, sufficiently attractive aspects to
animate to see it and to enjoy it.
 History =
> the
museum was inaugurated in 1971 and, until today, it
maintains an excellent conservation. The initiative
for the creation of the same one was of Don Julio
Rodriguez Martinez, University professor of
Mineralogy. From the functional point of view the
dowry of the museum, must to a large extent to the
work of harvesting and interchange of unit carried
out by Don Carlos Diaz Mauriño. Recently, professor Maria Asunción Millán
Changoyen (present
director) has managed the acquisition and study of
other units.
Characteristics = > is in the fourth plant of building C-VI
of the Faculty of Sciences of the
UAM and to him
all the people can accede freely who wish to visit
it. In many occasions she is used as educational and
investigating complement of the mineralogy classes,
in order formed the students of the diverse
specialties of the UAM . The surface of the room is of
200 ms 2 , of rectangular plant, with good
natural and artificial illumination. A new thing that
you can see is the map and the minerals situated in theirs
display cabinets.
Display
cabinets = >
the museum is equipped with 7 tables display cabinets in which typical units of the
practices are exposed, with 24 display cabinets murals, of three shelves each one in
where the most spectacular units and of an equipped dark luminiscence display cabinet with fluorescent tubes of short wave
are exposed and releases, for the observation with
some minerals that have the property of being
fluorescent.
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