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Jurassic Museum of Asturias

Jurassic Museum of Asturias (Spanish: Museo del Jurásico de Asturias, Muja) located in the Rasa de San Telmo near the parish Colunga, Asturias, Spain.
This museum displays a collection dating back 3,500 million years, and is divided into three stages (Mesozoic Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous or Cretaceous), various stages of geological periods shown in the display. contains more than 20 high-sized dinosaur replicas of more than 12 meters (39 feet), with a weight exceeding ten tonnes if the replica is real. there is also a collection of dinosaur footprints and fossils found in the Asturian Jurassic coast

Founded on March 31, 2004 with an investment of 12 million euroTujuan this museum is to illustrate the factors involved in the composition of life on Earth. team paleontologist José Carlos García-Ramos from the University of Oviedo led the scientific team of the museum.

Founded: March, 2004
Location: Kingdom of Asturias, Spain
Type: Paleontology of the Mesozoic division Cretaceous, Jurassic, and Triassic periods

Museum

The museum, which opened in 2004, designed by architect, Rufino Uribelarrea. This building has many special features, especially the roof, which is in the form "is taken from the analogy of a fingerprint of the dinosaurs". Three elliptical dome forming a large room. Roof structure made entirely of laminated wood, a plywood. The entire roof is covered with copper plate skin.

The first floor, ground floor and basement of the building of 5,000 square meters (54,000 sq ft). The three domes are broadly divided into three rooms division Mesozoic Cretaceous period, the Jurassic and Triassic.

The first floor consists of temporary exhibition space, reception room, administration rooms, and workshops, as well as libraries and laboratories. The ground floor contains a display space, audio-visual room and a permanent exposition space, along with the auditorium. Other supporting space that is there is a store, park, cafeteria, and playground.

Permanent exposition space

The room in the museum is divided into several periods beginning before the period of the Mesozoic (pre-Mesozoic), the period of the Mesozoic (Cretaceous, Jurassic and Triassic) and then to the present (post-Mesozoic).