Morella is a small citadel, capital of the region of Els Ports that are located in the northern English province of Castellón. Just last month I had the pleasure to announce on this blog your choice to host the ninth edition of the Meeting of Young Researchers in Paleontology, and today I am about to make known, in broad terms, one of the biggest attractions of the city paleontology, especially with regard to tourism and the general public.
The concept of the Museum "Dinosaur Temps" (Time of Dinosaurs in the local Valencian dialect) was born to accommodate a thematic area that showed the incredible value that the municipality has paleontological, as Morella and its many districts, like the rest of the region constitute a huge reservoir covering a period from the Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous, ie, between 145,000,000 and 98,000,000 years. Initially, the museum would be temporary because municipal authorities contemplating an ambitious project aimed at restoring the old factory Giner and therefore, its location was not right what is wished. Were the formidable towers guarding the gate of San Miguel, one of the main entrances to the walled citadel that served as a framework to expose the fossils donated by amateur paleontologist Francisco Yeste Morella and other items of special interest taken in the vicinity. It's been a dozen years I had the opportunity to visit the Museum for the first time in this early site, and although it was necessary to scroll vertically through the narrow halls of the restored fort, was a experience noteworthy because the beauty of the twin towers attached to each side of the door above the spectacular fossils exposed stunned me.
Over time, the genuine idea of \u200b\u200bputting together a great museum that places Morella in the forefront of the national paleontological museum fading despite the momentum shown by the local council, as the factory Giner, a symbol of industrial prosperity and textile city \u200b\u200bin the nineteenth century, required a costly and lengthy restoration before being able to host any event. The complex was later acquired by the Foundation Blasco de Alagon, which conditioned part of the building to provide samples and exhibitions that would help to finance its activities as a cultural foundation, the exhibition "Lizards terribly big" and "i Carbó Dinosaur" (In Valencia, Coal and Dinosaurs), mentioned in this Blog and private channel, are a good example of such events , often promoted by EDC Natura - Omacha Foundation. In response to many setbacks, the MUDIM or Dinosaur Museum Morella you were several candidates to take his place in the English paleontological panorama, the most fierce rival is still undoubtedly the Cinctorres neighbor, who has announced that it is able to accommodate a large Dinosaur Museum on a shoestring budget less than required by Morella. Under such pressures, the district capital in past years has outfitted a room more suitable museum to display his collection of fossilized, occupying one of the aisles of an old church acquired by the City and partially restored for use as the Health Center.
Today, the Museum Dinosaur Temps is framed by that church nave between arches and architectural shots Baroque Rococo style, and despite constituting a room much larger and more accessible than the old towers, preserved their provisional nature, because Morella authorities do not give up having to compete for one of the Paleontological Museum most notable of the nation.
The concept of the Museum "Dinosaur Temps" (Time of Dinosaurs in the local Valencian dialect) was born to accommodate a thematic area that showed the incredible value that the municipality has paleontological, as Morella and its many districts, like the rest of the region constitute a huge reservoir covering a period from the Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous, ie, between 145,000,000 and 98,000,000 years. Initially, the museum would be temporary because municipal authorities contemplating an ambitious project aimed at restoring the old factory Giner and therefore, its location was not right what is wished. Were the formidable towers guarding the gate of San Miguel, one of the main entrances to the walled citadel that served as a framework to expose the fossils donated by amateur paleontologist Francisco Yeste Morella and other items of special interest taken in the vicinity. It's been a dozen years I had the opportunity to visit the Museum for the first time in this early site, and although it was necessary to scroll vertically through the narrow halls of the restored fort, was a experience noteworthy because the beauty of the twin towers attached to each side of the door above the spectacular fossils exposed stunned me.
Over time, the genuine idea of \u200b\u200bputting together a great museum that places Morella in the forefront of the national paleontological museum fading despite the momentum shown by the local council, as the factory Giner, a symbol of industrial prosperity and textile city \u200b\u200bin the nineteenth century, required a costly and lengthy restoration before being able to host any event. The complex was later acquired by the Foundation Blasco de Alagon, which conditioned part of the building to provide samples and exhibitions that would help to finance its activities as a cultural foundation, the exhibition "Lizards terribly big" and "i Carbó Dinosaur" (In Valencia, Coal and Dinosaurs), mentioned in this Blog and private channel, are a good example of such events , often promoted by EDC Natura - Omacha Foundation. In response to many setbacks, the MUDIM or Dinosaur Museum Morella you were several candidates to take his place in the English paleontological panorama, the most fierce rival is still undoubtedly the Cinctorres neighbor, who has announced that it is able to accommodate a large Dinosaur Museum on a shoestring budget less than required by Morella. Under such pressures, the district capital in past years has outfitted a room more suitable museum to display his collection of fossilized, occupying one of the aisles of an old church acquired by the City and partially restored for use as the Health Center.
Today, the Museum Dinosaur Temps is framed by that church nave between arches and architectural shots Baroque Rococo style, and despite constituting a room much larger and more accessible than the old towers, preserved their provisional nature, because Morella authorities do not give up having to compete for one of the Paleontological Museum most notable of the nation.
Exterior view of the Museum. The group of pictures that accompany these lines have been selected from the snapshots taken during my last visit, which took place during the first week of last November. Despite the ban states to capture photographs of the site, I was granted the privilege of taking some pictures to give shape to this informal presentation that aims to attract the attention of readers of the blog and generate a general idea of \u200b\u200bthe framework that will encompass EJIP next edition in 2011.
main room and hallway. By accessing the museum are greeted by a magnificent scale reconstruction of an Iguanodon bernissartensis , Dinosaur star local deposits. For a small fee and a loose schedule that covers much of the day you can view a selection of the more prominent findings occurred in the numerous quarries in the region.
angular Detail of the first room. After the reception room is accessed several smaller rooms where you will find many Vertebrate fossils from the Lower Cretaceous local representative, Crocodiles, Mosasaurus and other terrestrial and marine organisms share space in the first module with a model that attempts to recreate the landscape Morella 100,000,000 years ago.
Murals explanatory. murals are not lacking in character graphics and informative text that aim to provide guidance and orientation for visitors less familiar with the wonders of extinct fauna that are set before their eyes.
Close side of a cabinet. Iguanodon, Coelurus , Dacentrurus , Megalosaurus and indeterminate Baryonychinae Brachiosauridae and Dinosaurs are better represented in the Museum, obviously because it is the species found in the vicinity.
Brachiosauridae scapula, the center of attention. In short, we are without doubt a great resort yet is only a foretaste of a much more ambitious and yet is finding many more obstacles in their way originally envisaged, from Here I would like to express my wholehearted support to MUDIM, worth the bad economic and political to erect a museum worthy of the city of Morella and paleontological incomparable environment. I encourage you to visit this time of dinosaurs, Morella and her charms are well worth it.
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