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gifts from other ambassadors: bones of rhinoceroses, whales, elephants, or other objects such as coins, maps, books, or unicorn horns. Part of these collections were lost in a fire, although some objects, especially the expedition catalogues, were saved. As we said before, this collecting activity was the seed of many of the European Natural History Museums that we know today . In 1752, King Ferdinand VI created the first Cabinet of Natural History Collections in Spain , animated by the sailor Antonio de Ulloa, who also directed it, with the participation of the mining specialist Guillermo Bowles, the chemist de la , and the metal casting specialist Andrés Keterlin. Carlos III was the one who gave a charter to the Royal Cabinet of Natural History , when in 1771 he acquired the collection of Pedro Franco Dávila , a merchant from Guayaquil living in Paris, which had, among other elements, minerals, rocks and fossils. It did not open to the public until 1776, being one of the first public exhibitions of natural history in Spain and the world .
Later, in 1815, the Royal Museum of Natural Sciences was established, which lost its title as Royal in 1837. After a period of instability, during which the collection was Cell Phone Number List even moved to the basements of the National Library, dispensing with the exhibition of its specimens, the entomologist Ignacio Bolívar, director of the Museum since 1901, the Museum in its current headquarters in 1910. In 1913 it obtained the name “National”. Today, the National Museum of Natural Sciences is a notable research center in Zoology and Geology, which manages important collections (more than six million specimens), and an extensive program of temporary and traveling exhibitions, as well as educational programs, courses and seminars. Outside of Spain, and in many cases prior to the initiative of Monarch Ferdinand VI, the collection housed in the Ambras Innsbruck Castle stands out. It was an initiative of Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria , in the 16th century. It is currently an Austrian federal museum and is part of the Art History Museum in Vienna .
The set of the chamber of art and wonders of Ferdinand II of Tyrol remains in the same space of the castle built expressly to house it, exhibited however according to a modern plan, which makes the Palace one of the most ancient of the world. Its exceptional collection , which was documented in several inventories, brings together glass goblets, goldsmith and silver works, as well as bronze sculptures, precious glass and turned filigree, coins and weapons, scientific and musical instruments, rare, exotic and natural objects. extraordinary, as well as portraits of people or animals that were considered “wonders of nature.” Today it contains one of the largest collections of Exotica , that is, of non-European objects of its time. cabinets of curiosities Among the wonders housed in Ambras Innsbruck Castle is this coral cabinet. Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria purchased corals in 1581 from the Genoese merchant Baptist Sermino and in 1590 from the Venetian merchant Baptist Vialla. In Innsbruck or Munich these corals imported from Italy were combined with shells, glass, etc. to form such cabinets. The 1596 inventory describes seven cabinets with corals like the one shown.