Father Ignacio Sala Collection

The collection of “Museo de Ciencias Naturales Padre Ignacio Sala S.J” (Father Ignacio Sala S.J Natural Sciences Museum) is a valuable and abundant collection seconded by agreement which holds material dating from 1840. The collection was initiated as the result of the naturalist activity of Father Antonio Vicent Dolz (1837-1912) but it is named after his successor, Father Ignacio Sala de Castellarnau S.J, who from 1939 and during 34 years gathered, classified and increased the collection of the Cabinet of Natural Sciences until he turned it into an authentic museum. Nowadays, most part of the collection is located on the facilities of the M[UV]HN with the exception of the documental collections, which can be found at the General Library of the Universitat, and the botanic and entomologic collections at the Botanic Garden and the Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, respectively.

A valuable labour of collecting for more than a century