La Salle Natural Science Museum

The La Salle Museum has like main target the preservation by means of the Taxidermia, of those animals that conclude by natural causes in zoological, particular circuses, collections, upsettings in highways or seizures to illegal hunters on the part of the Authorities. Thus instead of being rejected, they take advantage of later dissecting them and exposing them to the public in ample display cabinets acclimated according to its specific habitat.

Of this form, La Salle Museum is made a work of spreading and contribution of the method of objective education; showing the national and exotic fauna; method that so many and so good results have provided to our visitors through running of the times, demonstrating its vocation of modern museum, in which to educate, to conserve and to investigate are their high-priority objectives, thus being able to offer a suitable recreation.

With an outstanding ornithology, entomology and malacology collection, La Salle Museum displays around 18,000 attractive specimens. Four display rooms exhibit mammals, fish, reptiles and shells; there is also an archeological display room.

La Salle Museum is located on the southwest side of La Sabana Metropolitan Park, the museum is open to the public Monday to Saturday from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.