Undergraduate Catalogue - UPRM

Collections
COLLECTIONS
The Art Gallery located in the Carlos Chardón
Building of UPRM was inaugurated in 1959.
Works by both local and foreign artists are
frequently exhibited. The Department of
Humanities holds a permanent collection of
copies of some of the great paintings and
sculptures of the past.
A Natural History Collection located in Celis
Hall and collections in the Departments of
Geology and Marine Sciences serve as a nucleus
for an expanding museum in the near future.
The Geology Museum displays a collection of
fossils, minerals, and rocks, representative of the
Geology of Puerto Rico. The Planetarium and
the Astronomical Observatory, located in the
Physics building, offer monthly evening shows.
The MAPR herbarium, founded in 1958,
includes about 30,000 specimens of vascular
plants, bryophytes, and fungi. Most of the
collections are from Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the
Dominican Republic; the herbarium is especially
rich in collections from western Puerto Rico and
the islands of the Mona Passage (Desecheo,
Mona and Monito). The herbarium is located in
the Biology building and is open to the
university community and the general public.
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