Museo de Ciencias de la Universidad de Navarra

The Natural Sciences Museum of the University of Navarra is open to the general public since 1998. It displays a zoological collection, a geolofical section including rocks, fossils and minerals and a set of ancient hardware, texts, and laboratory material that were in past times used in Pharmacy, Chemistry and Photography. The whole collections are spread all over the halls of five floors of the Science building of the University of Navarra at its Pamplona campus.

The zoological collection has been assembled mostly from the material which was donated in 1990 to the University by the Capuchine Friars of the College of Our Lady of the Good Advice at Lecároz (Navarra), which was closed in 1992. However it also displays a large collection of marine mollusks' shells, donated by Mr. José del Río, as well as a small sample of tropical butterflies from the collection of the Ornithoptera specialist Mr. Gómez-Bustillo, which were donated by Mr. Jaime Anfruns. Some material from the large research collection (more than two million specimens of some 6000 species) of the Museum of zoology of the department of Environmental Biology of the University of Navarra have been also included in the displayed assembly. The displays cases show in all some 7000 specimens from all over the world.