Conca
Dellà Museum
The Conca Dellà Museum, which holds the Cretaceous Park,
is the scene for an exciting trip to the past. The museum offers the possibility
to discover an area that was occupied by the Roman culture in the past and,
many years before that, inhabited by the last dinosaurs that lived on the
Earth.
The Cretaceous Park is a project developed locally based on the integral heritage
of Conca Dellà. Thus, the Cretaceous Park allows everyone arriving to this
area of the Pallars Jussà region discovering this territory and its different
thematic environs -palaeontological beds, archaeological remains, historical-artistic
buildings- as well as the natural surroundings in which it is set.
Even though the museum collections are very specific, the Aeso Roman city
and the valley dinosaurs are the reflection of Conca Dellà's heritage.
For this reason, the ground floor shows a representation of all the interesting spots
in the villages belonging to the valley.
The museum has been possible thanks to the co-operation of the Territorial Action
State Office of the Catalan Government and the European Union ERDF, coordinated by
the Agriculture, Farming and Fisheries Department.
Location
The museum is situated in the town of Isona, on the south of the Pallars Jussà
region -Lleida province-, right in the middle of the old quarter of the town, besides
the church, in a narrow street with well preserved stone buildings.
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In 1990, the first
stage of the Municipal Museum was started. It worked until summer 1994, when its
remodelling began. In April 1995 the museum opened again as the basis of the Conca
Dellà development project, that is to say, the Cretaceous Park.
Museum Organization
The museum organization developed around the interpretation criterion "Conca
Dellà: men time, dinosaurs time". Such criterion exhibits the transformation
of a common landscape -that of Conca Dellà- through the passing of time and
with the territory's main patrimonial resources.
The museum is divided into different environments, using its various floors:
The basement holds the wine cellar, where an exhibition shows the importance
of the vineyard from the Roman age to mid 20th century. The ground floor,
holding the entrance, shows the geographical frame fundamental features, as well
as Conca Dellà's cultural and natural richness through the different villages
it comprises.
Following the time-scale, union point of the museum collections, we travel 2,000
years back on the first floor, when Isona was an important Roman city in inner
Catalonia. The visitor may see the chronological evolution of the Aeso Roman city,
know how it was and who lived there.
Continuing the trip, on the second floor, we put our clock 65 million years
back, up to the Cretaceous period. At that time, the valley was very different to
what it is now and dinosaurs were some of the animals living there. The palaeontological
remains allow explaining how the dinosaurs' life and surroundings were and how they
have been conserved up to the present.
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Opening times in winter (16 September - 30 June)
From Thursday to Saturday: 11:00 to 14:00 and 17:00 to 19:00
Sunday: 11:00 to 14:00
Holiday Mondays: Open
Opening times in summer (1 July - 15 September)
From Monday to Sunday: 11:00 to 14:00 and 17:00 to 19:00
Opening times in "Semana Santa"
From Monday to Sunday: 11:00 to 14:00 and 17:00 to 19:00
Monday of "Pasqua": 11:00 to 14:00
Information and previously booked visits to the Conca Dellà Museum:
C/ Museu nº 4. 25650. Isona - Lleida
Tel.: 973 66 50 62 Fax: 973 66 42 28
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Dinosaur footprints |
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Dinosaur eggs |
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First floor, Men time |
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Second floor , Dinosaurs time |
