Graduate Catalogue - UPRM
Graduate Catalogue - UPRM
Graduate Catalogue - UPRM
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24 Collections<br />
COLLECTIONS<br />
The Art Gallery located in the Carlos Chardón<br />
Building of <strong>UPRM</strong> was inaugurated in 1959.<br />
Works by both local and foreign artists are<br />
frequently exhibited. The Department of<br />
Humanities holds a permanent collection of<br />
copies of some of the great paintings and<br />
sculptures of the past.<br />
A Natural History Collection located in Celis<br />
Hall and collections in the Departments of<br />
Geology and Marine Sciences serve as a nucleus<br />
for an expanding museum in the near future.<br />
The Geology Museum displays a collection of<br />
fossils, minerals, and rocks, representative of the<br />
Geology of Puerto Rico. The Planetarium and<br />
the Astronomical Observatory located in the<br />
Physics building, offer monthly evening shows.<br />
The MAPR herbarium, founded in 1958,<br />
includes about 30,000 specimens of vascular<br />
plants, bryophytes, and fungi. Most of the<br />
collections are from Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the<br />
Dominican Republic; the herbarium is especially<br />
rich in collections from wester Puerto Rico and<br />
the islands of the Mona Passage (Desecheo,<br />
Mona, and Monito). The herbarium is located in<br />
the Biology building and is open to the<br />
university community and the general public.<br />
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<strong>Graduate</strong> <strong>Catalogue</strong> 2010-2011