Les coves, uns ambients únics

From October 8, 2025 to March 22, 2026, the MUCBO | Museu Balear de Ciències Naturals will host the exhibition “Les Coves: Uns ambients únics”, a showcase designed to bring the best-kept secrets of the subterranean world of the Balearic Islands to the general public.

The exhibition offers an immersion into the biodiversity, geology, and history of Balearic caves through a visual and scientific journey that combines a life-sized cave reproduction, enlarged scale models of cave fauna, and six itinerant thematic panels. These panels explore various disciplines that converge within speleology: zoology, paleontology, archaeology, geology, and the history of subterranean exploration in the Islands.

One of the main attractions of the exhibition is the realistic reconstruction of a cave, allowing visitors to closely observe the most characteristic rock formations, such as stalactites, stalagmites, and columns, as well as the environmental conditions that make this setting an extreme and fascinating habitat.

Additionally, the exhibition places special emphasis on cave fauna, focusing on endemic species found only in the caves of the Islands and their evolutionary adaptations to survive in such a demanding environment. It also highlights the key role caves have played as refuges for extinct species and as archaeological sites that help us better understand the past.

With a clearly educational approach, the exhibition aims to present the latest published scientific discoveries about the subterranean world in an engaging, accessible, and visual way, sparking curiosity and encouraging reflection on the fragility and the need to preserve these unique environments.

The exhibition is partially itinerant and forms part of a scientific outreach project supported by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology, F.S.P. (FECYT), the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, and the Conselleria of Education and Universities.