Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre
Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre is where Santa Cruz de Tenerife’s story of the islands is kept in three overlapping roles: archaeology, bioanthropology, and natural sciences. The museum integrates the Archaeological Museum of Tenerife, the Bioantropología’s Canary Institute, and the Museum of Natural Sciences of Tenerife, bringing together collections that range from paleontological and botanical holdings to entomology and marine and terrestrial vertebrates. Its archaeological section began in 1958, founded with funds from the Section of Archeology and Anthropology Museum of the City of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and its first director was Luis Diego Cuscoy, who assembled archaeological material and human remains from Tenerife’s prehistory. During the 1960s, new funding expanded the collections with ethnographic and archaeological material from Africa and Pre-Columbian America. …
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