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Chamber recalls that the Institute Alfonso X the Wise was awarded the Gold Medal of the City in 2007, during its 170 anniversary, in recognition of his extensive teaching and research
"By and For Murcia Murcia" says the shield with the Institute since its founding Alfonso X El Sabio and in the words of the Mayor, Miguel Angel House, "the inauguration of the new Museum makes clear to us that the theme continues in force and has not lost any sense it had when it created the education establishment in 1837, and was then third in Spain. "
House has attended this afternoon at the opening of the new building to house the MusaX, whose collections are put back in four areas: natural sciences, physics and chemistry, history and image library.
The event was attended by the Minister of Education, Training and Employment, Sotoca Constantine, and the center's director, José Juan Sánchez Solís, as well as teachers and representatives of the educational community.
Precisely the recognition of the merits and the vast educational and research treasured by the Instituto Alfonso X El Sabio was more than justified reason for the City Council granted the Gold Medal of the city at this school in 2007, coinciding with its 170 anniversary.
The museum may be visited by all the schools in the region and interested citizens to discover their cultural backgrounds and scientific.
Collections accumulated by the Institute since its founding documents comprise from valuable archival documents and unpublished works that are a valuable heritage considered among the most important in Europe.
The MusaX, as such data last year, but is aware of the existence of a set of museum collections since the mid-nineteenth century, when it begins to form the Library, which initially received a strong boost when it merged with the Seminario de San Fulgencio, later becoming its own entity.
It currently contains documents from the XVI century and includes more than 15,000 volumes, among which are valuable first editions, textbooks Spanish nineteenth-century secondary education, mathematics and physics from 1735 to 1768, as well as magazines and newspapers from different eras .
The area of Natural Sciences, began in 1850, has multiple copies of fish, reptiles, mammals, birds, minerals, rocks.
fossils, etc.
and owes much of its strength to the intervention by Angel Guirao and Francisco Cánovas Cobeño.
It is from 1860 when it launches the physics and chemistry section, considered the most important of its kind in Spain thanks to the quantity and quality of its nearly 240 pieces, which have been exhibited in the National Library in Museum of Science and Water.
Some of the devices were particularly novel in its time, as the Roentgen X-ray and Bell Telephone, who were in high school a few years from being invented.
Two classrooms of MusaX pay tribute today to two people linked to Murcia and the Institute: Classroom Classroom Olayo Diaz and Juan de la Cierva.
Image area began its journey in the course of 1991-92, when it starts to set up a small educational museum with items related to capturing, printing, reproduction, handling and imaging.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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