MERIDA — Construction of the Chicxulub Crater Museum has progressed 70 percent, and two of the four halls have been completed, while the five laboratories that make up the complex are very advanced, so it is expected to be delivered in October or November of this year.
Raúl Godoy Montañez, state secretary of Research Innovation and Higher Education (Siies), said that the museum that is located in the science park will have four rooms and five laboratories, one of them dedicated exclusively to the scientific advances that are achieved in the research of Exploration 364.
The designation of this museum will make it part of the second National Litoteca (Information and Research Center for Earth Sciences); the first is located in the city of Pachuca, Hidalgo, under the responsibility of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). It will gather samples and scientific data on drilling carried out in the states of Tabasco, Quintana Roo, Campeche and Yucatan.
The state official added that museum’s progress stands at 70 percent, and 53 million pesos are already invested. Completion is expected by the end of this year.
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