Wellcome
Exploring nature is a hobby and a profession and may be both at once. At natural history museums, exploring is the driving force behind their existence: exploring to know and exploring to learn.
In 2008, the Barcelona Natural Science Museum started up the Bioexplora programme to constitute an exhibition, publications and activities based on the experience of exploring nature. What started out as an invented term, to bioexplore, became accepted and identified with the objective of exploring biodiversity.
Bioexplora is now a website which hosts dynamic and interactive proposals and projects which share a common theme: bioexploring. To explore nature and also explore the Museum.
On it you will find websites for temporary exhibitions related with exploring nature, spaces for collaboration with the Museum’s scientific departments, or other projects and an innovation section where you can find website applications developed to expand the possibilities for consulting the Museum’s collections.
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Exhibitions
Temporary exhibitions at the Barcelona Natural Science Museum. The latest exhibition is highlighted and news is given on past exhibitions and future proposals relating to the study of biodiversity.
“EXPLORERS: ADVENTURE AND BIODIVERSITY”
“Explorers: adventure and biodiversity”. A temporary exhibition (28 October 2009 – 31 May 2010) which opened at the Sala de la Balena hall in the Zoology building within the context of two significant dates: 2009, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his major work on the origin of the species, and 2010, which has been established as the International Year of Biodiversity.
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OTHER EXHIBITIONS
Catalogue of temporary exhibitions already closed or still to be held at the Museum, whose themes tie in with exploring biodiversity.
Collaborate
A person who bioexplores does so with the mindset of sharing, of making personal contributions and collaborating to improve collective projects.
WIKICOLLECTA
Anyone who wants to collaborate on the Museum’s scientific activity will find an opportunity to do so in this space. The Museum’s collections are very large in volume and widespread in terms of their geographical origins and the time interval over which they have been created. Their documentation often contains questions that require outside help to be answered. With the comments and information that you provide we will be able to resolve any doubts raised.
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Innovation
The museum is a box of surprises. Its collections, research and public activity are constant sources of innovation. The diversity of knowledge created and circulated often crosses the barrier of the usual media. So the museum explores new ways to transmit the contents created through its scientific activity.
BROWSING THE COLLECTIONS
The collections can also be consulted through immersion in the data that describe them. Browsing around the taxonomy tree or through maps lets us enjoy an innovative experience and discover the contents of the collections.
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