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he Eco Museum-Visitor’s Centre of the Castle of Ainsa (Huesca) aims at simply and didactically disseminating the most outstanding values of Pyrenean Fauna and Nature. The Visitors’ Centre occupies an 11th century building in the old quarter of the town, declared a national historical-artistic monument.

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The Eco Museum offers four areas:
1) 1) RECEPTION AND INFORMATION AREA:
Information about the natural values and Protected Spaces.
Guided tour service to the natural medium.
Nature shop (publications, arts and crafts and souvenirs related to the fauna of the Pyrenees).
   
2) INTERPRETATION AREA:
Exhibition on “Pyrenean fauna”, consisting of a group of exhibition areas that approach different aspects: the Bearded Vulture and scavenger birds, threatened Pyrenean species, bioclimatic levels, the Pyrenees: a world of many worlds and threats for fauna. The materials used to transmit the information are models, computers and other interactive media.
 
Audiovisual show: “Pyrenean fauna” or “The Conservation of the Bearded Vulture”. The show takes place in a multipurpose hall prepared for holding conferences, talks and congresses with capacity for 80 people.
   
3) ALBERGUE DE LA FAUNA:

    Ofrece una exposición guiada por un informador sobre aves rapaces incapacitadas para vivir en libertad, abordando su fascinante biología, problemática y esfuerzos en su conservación.

   La visita se realiza a través de un túnel de observación con cristales espejados que permite observar a las aves irrecuperables sin molestias para las mismas.
4) FAUNA SHELTER:
    This offers an exhibition guided by an informer on birds of prey that are unable to live in freedom, addressing their fascinating biology, problems and efforts to conserve them.
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