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Brazil National Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The National Museum, linked to the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), is the oldest scientific institution in Brazil that, until September 2018, figured as one of the largest museums of natural history and anthropology in the Americas. It is located inside the Quinta da Boa Vista park, in…

Brazil National Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Quinta da Boa Vista Municipal Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The Quinta da Boa Vista is a municipal park in the district of Saint Kitts Imperial, located in the North Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is currently a public landscape complex of great historical value. On the Quinta’s premises is located the National Museum of…

Quinta da Boa Vista Municipal Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Geology, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

The National Museum had a collection of approximately 70 thousand items related to Earth sciences, subdivided into nuclei of paleontology, mineralogy, petrology and meteorology, composed of objects from different locations in Brazil and the world. Formed since the end of the 18th century, it was one of the largest and…

Geology, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

Plants of Central Brazil – Historical rescue and virtual herbarium by Auguste Glaziou, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

The exhibition “Plantas do Brasil Central – Historical rescue and virtual herbarium by Auguste Glaziou”, is focused on cultural and scientific dissemination, operating at the interface of memory and scientific production. Promoted by the Herbarium and the Department of Botany of the National Museum / UFRJ, will feature the conference…

Plants of Central Brazil – Historical rescue and virtual herbarium by Auguste Glaziou, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

Palaeontology, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

The National Museum had one of the most significant paleontological collections in Latin America, totaling about 56 thousand specimens and 18,900 records, divided into paleobotany, paleoinvertebrate and paleovertebrate nuclei. It consisted mainly of fossils of plants and animals, from Brazil and other countries, as well as reconstructions, replicas, models and…

Palaeontology, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

Shells, Corals, Butterflies, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

The exhibition “Shells, corals, butterflies”, with a space of 350 square meters, about 2 thousand invertebrates. The revitalization project of the exhibition aimed to preserve and disseminate the collections and processes linked to recent research in the areas of Entomology (science that studies insects) and Invertebrates, highlighting the most relevant…

Shells, Corals, Butterflies, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

African and Afro-Brazilian ethnology, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

The collection of African and Afro-Brazilian ethnologyof the National Museum was made up of approximately 700 objects. It encompassed both specimens produced by people from different regions of the African continent and testimonies of the cultural manifestations of the descendants of African peoples in Brazil. The nucleus of African objects…

African and Afro-Brazilian ethnology, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

Brazilian indigenous ethnology, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

The collection of Brazilian indigenous ethnology at the National Museum is among the largest in its type, covering more than 30,000 objects, produced by more than one hundred indigenous groups, from all regions of Brazil. This broad set – formed since the beginning of the 19th century, through field collections,…

Brazilian indigenous ethnology, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

Ancient Egypt, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

Adding more than 700 items, the National Museum’s Egyptian archeology collection was the largest in Latin America and the oldest in the Americas. Most of the pieces entered the museum’s collection in 1826, when the merchant Nicolau Fiengo brought from Marseille a collection of Egyptian antiquities that belonged to the…

Ancient Egypt, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

Mediterranean cultures, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

The National Museum’s classic archeology collection consisted of approximately 750 pieces, mostly covering the Greek, Roman, Etruscan and Italian civilizations, the largest of its kind in Latin America. Much of this collection corresponded to the Greco-Roman collection of Empress Teresa Cristina, interested in archeology since her youth. When she landed…

Mediterranean cultures, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

Pre-columbian Archeology, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

The National Museum conserved an important set of approximately 1,800 artifacts produced by Amerindian civilizations during the pre-Columbian era, in addition to Andean mummies. Formed over the 19th century, this collection had its origins in the collections of the Brazilian imperial family, especially in the Pedro II collection, having subsequently…

Pre-columbian Archeology, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

Brazilian Archeology, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

The collection of Brazilian archeology brought together a vast set of artifacts produced by the people who inhabited the Brazilian territory in the pre-colonial period, with more than 90,000 items, being considered the most comprehensive collection existing in its typology. Constituted since the beginning of the 19th century, the collection…

Brazilian Archeology, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

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