Research paper
The palaeontological and archaeological museum “Ildefonso Recio Valverde” (Totanés, Toledo). A new area for understanding our past
ÍÑIGO VITÓN
Departamento de Geodinámica, Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avenida José Antonio Novais, 12, 28040, Madrid, Spain. iviton@ucm.es
Corresponding author
MIGUEL ÁNGEL CERVILLA-MUROS
Departamento de Geodinámica, Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avenida José Antonio Novais, 12, 28040, Madrid, Spain. mcervi01@ucm.es
VÍCTOR MORENOS
Departamento de Geodinámica, Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avenida José Antonio Novais, 12, 28040, Madrid, Spain. vmorenos@ucm.es
ELENA GUTIÉRREZ-SÁNCHEZ
Museo Paleontológico y Arqueológico Ildefonso Recio Valverde, Casa de la Cultura, Ayuntamiento de Totanés, Calle Ildefonso Recio Valverde 1, 45163 Totanés, Toledo, Spain. elena.filol@gmail.com
ÁNGELA FRAGUAS
Departamento de Geodinámica, Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avenida José Antonio Novais, 12, 28040, Madrid, Spain. arfragua@geo.ucm.es
ABSTRACT
The Palaeontological and Archaeological Museum “Ildefonso Recio Valverde” was recently opened in Totanés (Toledo). The material included in this museum mostly belonged to the personal collection of I. Recio, who donated it to this municipality to contribute to the dissemination of Palaeontology and Archaeology. Its creation, and the even more recent discovery of a Neolithic cromlech in its vicinity, provides this small village with great potential to become a centre for heritage tourism and scientific outreach. This paper presents the process of arranging the museum and cataloguing the palaeontological collection, as well as outlining its value as a local museum.
Key words: Totanés, local museum, heritage, dissemination, Montes de Toledo.
How to cite: Vitón, Í., Cervilla-Muros, M.Á., Morenos, V., Gutiérrez-Sánchez, E. & Fraguas, Á. 2019. The palaeontological and archaeological museum “Ildefonso Recio Valverde” (Totanés, Toledo). A new area for understanding our past. Spanish Journal of Palaeontology, 34 (1), 131-138.
Received 1 February 2019, Accepted 13 May 2019, Published 30 June 2019
https://doi.org/10.7203/sjp.34.1.15254
