2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/37333There has been a big effort in the past twenty years with at least a couple of generations of experiments which searched for supermassive GUT magnetic monopoles in the cosmic radiation. Here a short review of these searches is given, together with a brief description of the theoretical framework and of the detection techniques.Talk given at the Vulcano workshop on "Frontier Objects in Astrophysics and Particle Physics", May 2002High Energy Physics - Experimenttext