{"id":6792,"date":"2025-08-19T15:33:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T19:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/havana24-7.com\/?post_type=guias&#038;p=6792"},"modified":"2025-10-31T09:17:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:17:46","slug":"national-museum-of-natural-history","status":"publish","type":"guias","link":"https:\/\/havana24-7.com\/en\/guias\/museo-nacional-de-historia-natural\/","title":{"rendered":"National Museum of Natural History"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Un santuario del conocimiento cient\u00edfico y la biodiversidad<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Ubicado en el emblem\u00e1tico edificio del lado suroeste de la Plaza de Armas en La Habana Vieja, el Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Cuba se erige como un santuario del conocimiento cient\u00edfico y la biodiversidad del archipi\u00e9lago. Esta instituci\u00f3n, que reabri\u00f3 sus puertas el 6 de julio de 1999 en su sede actual, ocupa un edificio hist\u00f3rico construido a principios del siglo XX que sirvi\u00f3 como Embajada de Estados Unidos en los a\u00f1os inmediatamente posteriores a la independencia cubana. El museo, que forma parte del conjunto patrimonial de la Plaza de Armas declarada Patrimonio de la Humanidad, combina la elegancia arquitect\u00f3nica de su edificio con una fascinante exhibici\u00f3n de la riqueza natural de Cuba, convirti\u00e9ndose en un espacio donde convergen la historia, la ciencia y la educaci\u00f3n ambiental.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Impresionantes colecciones taxon\u00f3micas <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El museo alberga una impresionante colecci\u00f3n que incluye 48,743 ejemplares en sus colecciones taxon\u00f3micas y 1,839 exponentes en sus fondos de exhibici\u00f3n, organizados en salas distribuidas estrat\u00e9gicamente en cuatro plantas. Sus exposiciones permanentes abarcan desde mam\u00edferos, aves y reptiles de diversas partes del mundo hasta exhibiciones especializadas en la fauna cubana, geolog\u00eda, paleontolog\u00eda y evoluci\u00f3n de la vida en la Tierra. Entre sus piezas m\u00e1s destacadas se encuentra un esqueleto montado del Megalocnus rodens, el perezoso gigante cubano extinto, y una r\u00e9plica del cr\u00e1neo de Tyrannosaurus rex, adem\u00e1s de contar con sistemas de audio sofisticados que reproducen sonidos de animales y exhibiciones interactivas que narran los or\u00edgenes de la vida y la evoluci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Historia del Museo de Ciencias Naturales<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Con sus or\u00edgenes que se remontan al Museo Cubano de Ciencias Naturales creado en 1959, la instituci\u00f3n evolucion\u00f3 hasta convertirse en el Museo de Ciencias Felipe Poey entre 1962 y 1980, en honor al distinguido zo\u00f3logo cubano. Tras una importante reestructuraci\u00f3n que lo llev\u00f3 bajo la administraci\u00f3n del Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnolog\u00eda y Medio Ambiente desde 1992, el museo se ha consolidado como centro de investigaci\u00f3n y divulgaci\u00f3n cient\u00edfica. Sus salas especializadas incluyen exposiciones sobre la historia de la Tierra y la vida, naturaleza cubana, vertebrados e invertebrados locales, y colecciones de rocas y minerales, todas dise\u00f1adas para promover el conocimiento sobre la naturaleza y sensibilizar sobre la importancia de preservar las riquezas naturales del pa\u00eds para las futuras generaciones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"6794\" src=\"https:\/\/havana24-7.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Museo_Nacional_de_Historia_Natural_23-1024x683.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6794\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"6795\" 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