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Best of Tenerife museums is 'Man and Nature' in Santa Cruz.Tenerife museums' Museum of Man and Nature called Muséo de la Naturaleza y el hombre is not only unusual but, good. It not only represents nature and marine life on the island but, also treasures the best examples of Guanche culture. Museum of Man and Nature's Guanche mummies:The Guanches were the inhabitants of Tenerife before they were conquered by European people as reported in a nut shell in Santa Cruz history as well as in Taoro Park.
At the museum, 2 Guanche mummies are part of its trophies. Everything is done there for best preservation, scientific studies, display as well as international reports thereof as the matter is highly interesting for world anthropology.
Also, in 2003, there was quite a bit of drama in all Tenerife newspapers when the Tenerife Cabilde (autonomous government)saw to it that the mummies came back from a provincial museum in Argentina after they had been sold to it by private collectors in Tacoronte, decades ago. Another mummy still rests in a public exposition center in Madrid. Tenerife authorities feel that it should be on the island of its birth and are trying everything to have it at their internationally renown museum of Man and Nature in Santa Cruz.
Tenerife which still has Guanche blood in its population which is said to survive in female genes has all the reasons and rights to specialize in studies and display of those mummies of the island's past. Even some Guanche family names still exist within its population. Besides, the museum of Man and nature is best equipped for dealing with the mummified remnants of the past. Address:
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This museum which to me looks like the best of Tenerife museums doesn't only provide knowledge gathered for ages but, teaches in an innovative, inviting style. The whole concept sounds like immense fun to me. Therefore, it would be a perfect option for international and European travel agents as well as educational departments overseas to make use of the facility.
Culture travels could be combined with study tours for young and old. The museum provides local tours or field trips to ecologically special areas in Tenerife by its monthly programs. Believe me, the volcanic island in the middle of the Atlantic opposite West Africa has plenty of those. Also, the study locations outside the walls of this most internationally renown of all Tenerife museums are ideal for photography.
This is an intriguing subject to start with because, many secrets about those people have not been lifted. The pyramids of Guimar and preserved mommies are the most known. Linguistic clues were found engraved on stone. Words and names are still alive in Tenerife. Some secrets have been uncovered, somehow. Then there is the unsolved question where the Island of Atlantis might have been. Could Tenerife have been part of it? The Tenerife ecology taught by Musuem of Man and Nature might help, here. Last not least, Fauna and Flora of an amazing Island of volcanic history has much to show for at the Muséo de la Naturaleza y Hombre called Museum of Man and Nature. Several Tenerife museums have been joined in the 1950ies to become one for Man and Nature. The hard work of archeology, nature and anthropology sciences have been combined. A venture which makes only too much sense... Everything on our earth intertwines, in fact. You may get in touch for detailed information on planned classes and field trips with locally supervised studies at: Tel: 922 536 816 General museum information Tel: 922 209 31 Archeology Tel: 922 209 314 Natural Sciences Open Tuesday - Sunday from 9 a.m.-19p.m. Please, find out about another rather unusual place in the Tenerife capital by going from Tenerife Museums Man and Nature to Tenerife Museums Palmetum. This is an incredibly different park which merits the title of museum in my eyes, for sure. From what I've heard there will be a museum for palms within the park.
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