The Museum houses an important zoological collection known as the Navàs Collection. Created by Longí Navàs at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth, it contains a wide diversity of orders including Neuroptera, Odonata, Mecoptera, Plecoptera and Ephemeroptera from around the world.
One of the key elements of the project undertaken by the Museum’s Arthropod Department to catalogue and study this collection is the improvement in the presentation and storage conditions of the specimens, as can be seen in the photos from before and after the work was carried out.
The work was carried out in collaboration with the Laboratory of Preventative Conservation and Restoration and consists of the reorganization of the specimens as the photos from ‘before’ and ‘after’ clearly show. With these improvements, the specimens are better preserved and can be studied individually far more easily. This demonstrates the importance of collaboration between expert zoologists and conservation specialists in the management of natural science collections.
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