Natural Sciences Museum of Granollers

The Natural Sciences Museum of Granollers, in Catalonia, covers a variety of fields: paleontology, geology, botany, meteorology, and more specifically zoology. The Museum is the coordinator of the Catalan Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, the Bat Monitoring Programme, the micro-mammal and dormouse monitoring programme, and the herpetofauna monitoring project. The museum hosts a recently established research group (BIBIO), focused on the study of biodiversity through bioindicators. It also has a research project working on agriculture and climate change and acts as a reservoir for local agricultural seed varieties. The Museum also manages the Meteorological Station of Granollers, a library specialized in local natural science, and the “Centre d'Educació Ambiental Can Cabanyes”, an environmental education centre in a nature reserve located south of the city. In addition, the Museum is the headquarters of the Montseny Natural Park Documentation Centre, as well as