A unique and particular museum dedicated to all population in general and to the tourists, with a special focus in educational community. Certainly, a clear exponent of sailing and fishing traditions in the town of salt.
Place: Avenida de la Estación s/n (Old RENFE station exhibition room).
Opening Hours: Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Price: Free entrance
The Torrevieja’s Natural History Museum collection counts with following sections: Mammals, Ornithology, Herpetology, Ichthyology, Marine Invertebrates and Malacology. Skeletons of bottle nosed and striped dolphins, whales, collections of original nests (which were abandoned after the breeding time) and replicates of eggs of a total of 17 typical birds in the area, loggerhead turtles and marine invertebrates from the Mediterranean sea which have been collected throughout the years from the Torrevieja’s coast.
It is also worth mentioning it has a collection of over 300 species of marine molluscs (mainly gastropods) and about 20 corals, all of them collected from the coast of the Zanzibar island (Tanzania) during the period between 1972 and 1975 by the Dutch couple Charlotte and Elbertus Fiege, which were donated in the year 2005 to the Torrevieja’s town hall. A general collection made of molluscs mainly coming from malagologic areas of the Indo-Pacific, Athlantic-African and of course Mediterranean seas. Finally, its Ictiology collection is worth a visit, as it counts with sea horses, needlefishes, cat sharks, breams, and many other species of the ocean as well as dioramas and scale models of maritime and fishing traditions in Torrevieja.
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