[ Spanish version]   A picture of nature The Provincial Museum of Natural Sciences of Santa Fe is waiting for your visit. It invites you to know one of the most important collections of our country.

Earth Sciences:
 This group has the earth and structure as its object of study: Geology, Edaphology, Mineralogy and Paleontology

Botanical Sciencies:
 It studies the one-cell, as well as the Vascular plants, going from the fossilized forms up to the superior plants and anatomical models

Invertebrates:
 This category is composed of a great number of animals. It has protozoan, sponges, arthropods (including insect), echinoderms (stars, urchins), mollusks ( octopus, snails), and helminthes all of them having a great influence on the parasite life, and covering all our planet.

Fish:
 Perfectly adapted to the acuatic environment, covering a great range of our earth surface, from the sea to the small lakes and rivers rich in food, (to the ocean its deep).

Herpethology:
 It includes  batrachians and reptiles. The first are earthly vertebrates, the most ancient ones, which come from kind of fish which tried to leave the liquid elemet. In a second evolutional attempt, the conquest of earth is done by the reptiles, in 3 forms: crocodiles and lizards, turtles and serpents.

Birds:
 They are one of the element within have embellished our natural environment, their colours, their social life so interesting and their behavior made them one most important of our planet.
 Our region has a rich and varied bird, fauna which we want to respect and protect to keep nature’s balance and natural resource.

Mammals:
 They are a fundamental element, within the nourishing chain, with a complete range of sizes and ways of  adaptation from a deer a chiroptera.
 Their evolution is in actual danger because of their dying out accelerated by human progress and the technology. Today we have parks, reservation or natural areas in which they are kept in complete freedom.

Extra activities:
- Lectures, videos, films about Natural and Environment Sciences.
- Courses and conferences: Arthropods preparations, Herbary formation; Introduction to Ecology; Taxidermy; Ornithological. Introduction.
- Guided visits by tourists, students.
- Library and Public Documentations Center (56.000 volumens)
- Periodicals publications. Other occasional publications.
- Herbary, Taxidermy store and reference collections.
- Pupil-teachers and universities students training.
- Seat of Scientifically and Educational Associations

The Library and  Documentation Center “Dr Joaquin Franguelli”

- Library and Documentation Center “Dr. Joaquin Franguelli” has approximately 1090 journal titles and 5136
      volumenes. The Library specialize in zoology, botany, geology, paleobiology, museology and Cultural polity.

- Its holding are catalogued in Hemeroteca, Mapoteca and Videoteca. The
Library is open to the public. Loans are made only to authorized users.national and international
interlibrary loans. No photocopier available Periodical publications of museum.
Comunicaciones, and Catalogos on exchange basis. Other occasional publications.

- Current activies and library usage:

- Studies in botany, invertebrate and vertebrate zoology, wildlife management and geosciences. Usage about 250 visitors
      annually, teachers and university student training.

- Areas of interest for literature:

- Geology, botany, entomology, invertebrates, ichthyology, herpetology, mammalogy, parasitology, evolution,
      paleobiology, biogeography, natural areas and reserves, wildlife management, museology, conservation of collections,
      cultural policy.

   Open: Monday to Friday: 8 am. To 13 pm.

Visits: Time – Table
           Closed on Sunday / January
           Closed january

From Monday to Friday:
           Winter: 7 to 13 a.m. (Tuesday and Wednesday 2 to 8 p.m.)
            Summer: 7 to 13 a.m. (Tuesday and Wednesday 2 to 8 p.m.)
            Saturday 16 to 19 p.m.

 
 

COLABORATION PRIMER The provincial museum of natural sciences "Florentino Ameghino" of Santa Fe, sends you this publication. the direction would be pleased if your name is added to the names of hundreds of persons and institutions that contribute to their enrichment. You surely have in your library, a publications, pamphlet or book about natural sciences, ecology or ambiental sciences which you could retribute our shipments with. We also wished the donation of mineralógicos objects (crystals, rocks and stones), fossil rest and exemplary zoological botanists and Zoological Sciences. The museum counts on an atelier of Taxidermia where the fresh animals prepare themselves, that are sent.. At the moment it is counted on a heap of 36,500 units that conform the collections of Sciences of the Earth, Botany and Zoology; and its Library and Center of Documentation - of public consultation - have a volume superior to the 4,000 bibliographical pieces.