The Universitat de València has a rich scientific and natural heritage collected in many different collections. This heritage is associated with its own history and is scattered throughout its multiple centers.
 
The Cabinet or Museum of Natural History of the Universitat de València, founded in the mid-nineteenth century, was active and was enriching its funds until  12 May, 1932 there was a devastating fire that devoured much of their collections. From that catastrophe, only some zoological and botanical specimens that the University had collected over five centuries could be rescued, but almost all geological and paleontological funds were lost.
 
The new Museum of the Universitat de València de Historia Natural, M [UV] HN, was inaugurated on  15 February , 2018 , in which a large number of the most important pieces of the geological, paleontological and zoological collections are exhibited, among others, highlighting, scientific instruments of the nineteenth century, the meteorite "Valencia", the oldest turtle footprints in Europe, a 1: 1 scale replica of the skeleton of a pterosaur "Tropeognathus" or a black vulture of 1860 saved from the flames.

Access to the Museum [UV] Natural History