Alborania Museum

The Museo Alborania, officially called Museo Alborania-Aula del Mar, is a museum dedicated to the Alboran Sea, located in the Spanish city of Málaga, and a collaborator with the Ministry of the Environment of the Junta de Andalucía.

History and facilities

The Aula del Mar was created in 1989 as a nature center-school specialized in the marine environment. Dedicated to the dissemination of environmental education, focused mainly on the educational community, it also carries out research and training in marine farming and its main objective is to publicize the richness and variety of life that the Alboran Sea houses, an area of influence museum, its natural spaces, its people and seafaring traditions, as well as making visitors aware of the need to care for and protect the marine environment.

In 2012 it moved to its new headquarters in the Palmeral de las Sorpresas on Pier 2 of the Port of Malaga. The museum facilities have 12 aquariums with a total capacity of 18,000 liters, divided into several rooms that occupy a total of 400 m², in which they try to represent the most characteristic habitats of the Alboran Sea, as well as the species that in them they live.

Collection

The museum's funds have remains of marine animals of more than 1000 species (shells, shells, bone structures...). Within its collection it is worth highlighting: One of the best collections of invertebrate animals in Spain, a wide variety of fossils, as well as Carcharodon megalodon teeth, two giant squids, a tiger shark jaw, a thresher shark tail, leatherback turtle shells, green turtle, hawksbill turtle and loggerhead turtle, several dolphin casts, an enormous whale skull, with its spectacular vertebrae, archaeological remains of amphoras, and the command bridge of a full-scale ship, equipped with a radio transmitter with the one that can communicate with the fishing boats that sail through the bay.