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Geological Museum of Lisbon

Last Updated: 18th Jun 2013

Museu Geológico de Lisboa














Lisbon geology hall

Scientific instruments

















Welcome to Museu Geológico de Lisboa!








Gavialosuchus americanus Sellards var. lusitanicus


Museu Geológico (Geological Museum) has began to be organized by 1859 with the items assembled during the works of the Geological Commissions and later on of the Portuguese Geological Survey and The Geological Mining Institute.

Its samples (fossils, rocks, minerals and archaeologic objects) are open to the national and international scientific community.

Museu Geológico is located at the very place of birth of the Portuguese Geology and Archaeology which gives it an unique value in the history of the national science.

The exhibition furniture and the inside architecture of the building all strongly reflect the XIX century type of museology. This is rare in Europe nowadays and has led experts to consider it as a "Museum of Museums".




Paleontology hall




















Stibnite, Gondomar










This Museum holds a small mineral collection with very interesting Portuguese specimens, some genuine classics, which should also be visited.
To whet your interest follow http://www.mindat.org/article.php/830/Minerals+Classics+of+the+Geological+Museum+of+Lisbon












Cruziana Beirense

Teeth

Trilobites

Skull





Ammonite, Coimbra

Dinosaur footprints, C. Mondego

Dinosaur dorsal vertebras

Dinosaur bones





Elephant teeth

Petrified wood

Lourinhã dinosaur bones

Sea urchin fossil





Meandrina, Moinho do Cabaço

Fossil plant

Ammonites from Conducia

Ammonite, Cabo Mondego


















































Address: Rua Academia das Ciência, 19-2nd floor, 1200-003 Lisbon, Portugal
Phone: 21 346 39 15
Open: Thursday to Saturday 10 am to 5 pm
Close: Sunday, Monday and national holidays



Map of Lisbon




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