SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 22 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife, through the Autonomous Organization of Museums and Centers (OAMC), has presented this Wednesday a new exhibition space in the Museum of Nature and Archeology (MUNA) called ‘Ethology in stillness’, which travels to the period of confinement with the aim of exposing the changes experienced by the natural environment due to the cessation of human activity.
The insular Councilor for Museums, Concepción Rivero, and the director of the Museum of Natural Sciences, Fátima Hernández, presented the details of this exhibition.
“With this exhibition space we evoke that terrible pandemic period in which the human being, locked up in his house, became an observer of animal behavior while, curiously, we witnessed changes in nature”, explained the counselor, to the time that he took the opportunity to invite to visit “the first floor of the museum, where the exhibition is located, to remember how the fauna changed and colonized the streets in the absence of human activity and the low contamination that occurred during the pandemic.”
In addition, Rivero emphasized that “this space evokes a reflection on the necessary improvement in the coexistence between humans and nature to achieve sustainability and the well-being of the planet, and invites us to relive a period that marked a before and after for both the human being as for the Earth”.
For her part, the director of the Museum of Natural Sciences, Fátima Hernández, stated that her team has presented “different proposals for temporary exhibitions on impact issues” and believes that “this has been one of the most powerful for recreating a crucial moment in the history”.
Hernández points out that “what happened during the confinement allowed that, once overcome, multiple studies and scientific articles were carried out on which we have based ourselves to carry out this sample”, and added that “during this period the organisms not only approached spaces generally inhabited by humans, but also changed their behaviors”.
The space is presented to the visitor in an immersive way, through a room that recreates a living room at home where the viewer will become the protagonist of the exhibition, on a trip to the past that will take them back to the months of confinement, collects a note from the Town hall.
The visitor will have a single window with reality, coming from a television.
In it, through an informative, the peculiar behavior experienced by the natural environment during confinement is reviewed, due to the attenuation of human impact on biota.
