The government delegate in Galicia, Pedro Blanco, visited this week the Corunnese headquarters of the National Museum of Science and Technology (MUNCYT) accompanied by its director, Fernando Luis Fontes. There, he valued the contribution of this museum to scientific dissemination in Galicia, with more than 55,000 visitors per year, of which 40% correspond to schools throughout the community.
Pedro Blanco described the museum as “an excellent showcase for Spanish science”, as well as a “magnificent didactic tool” to promote scientific and technological knowledge in our society.
Thus, together with the 600 pieces on display at the Muncyt’s Coruña headquarters, among which stands out, due to its visibility, the cabin and a turbine of the Boeing 747 Jumbo “Lope de Vega” or the flashlight of the “Tower of Hercules”, the delegate mentioned other activities complementary to the exhibitions, all of them free of charge, such as conferences, ludic-scientific activities, didactic workshops, collaboration in the training of science teachers, and publication of catalogues and dissemination works, among others.
More than 10 years in A Coruña
The National Museum of Science and Technology, MUNCYT, was created on June 30, 1980. It is attached to the General Secretariat of Research of the Ministry of Science and Innovation. A Coruña’s headquarters was opened in May 2012. It was located in the building “Prisma de Cristal”, built by the Diputación de A Coruña. In addition to its headquarters in Galicia, MUNCYT has another exhibition centre in Alcobendas (Madrid) and a documentation centre in Madrid-Delicias.
The MUNCYT develops a series of informative proposals around the museum’s collection and in relation to different scientific and technological areas. Currently you can visit the temporary exhibition The labyrinths of the brain in which the functioning of the brain is explained and deepening in neuroscientific research. In addition, family workshops, conferences, talks, track games and events such as concerts are organized every week.
An example of these added activities is the program organized by the MUNCYT of A Coruña on the occasion of the European Night of Researchers, a scientific dissemination event that takes place annually in several European cities on the last Friday of September. The MUNCYT of A Coruña joined this commemoration with different workshops and talks that will end today, Saturday.