It is located in the historic center of Vila Velha de Sintra, on Rua do Paço, District of Lisbon, Central Portugal
The Sintra Natural History Museum is located in the heart of the Historic Center of Vila Velha de Sintra, on Rua do Paço, in a 19th century building, more specifically from 1893.
The museum has an important collection of paleontology (fossils), mineralogy (minerals), malacology (shells) and petrography (rocks).
The museum opened to the public on August 1, 2009, with all the assets donated by Miguel Barbosa and his wife, Fernanda Barbosa, collected over more than fifty years. According to Miguel, he had several offers from abroad to receive his precious collection.
At the Museum, a long-term exhibition is on display to the public, the genesis of which came from the hands of the collector Miguel Barbosa and his wife, Fernanda Barbosa, who for around 50 years gathered a unique collection made up of thousands of fossils of incalculable cultural and scientific value.
The exhibition space has a dynamic presentation, using furniture and equipment designs based on modernity, the use of new technologies.
The public exhibition tells the story that begins with the formation of the Primitive Earth and the mutations it underwent over millions of years throughout the different Geological Epochs, from the Pre-Cambrian to the Quaternary, showing the entire evolution of life through the Municipal Collections of Paleontology, Mineralogy, Malacology and Petrography from the most diverse parts of the world.
Among the Museum's more than 10,000 fossils, the collection includes a superb Collection of Trilobites and some rare and very well-preserved specimens of Dinosaurs. The great beauty of the minerals with pieces still in rock that have already been cut will be an attraction for both national and foreign visitors.
In the Malacology Collection, Bivalves and some Gastropods stand out, from different sources, and in the Petrography Collection, the main rocks of the national territory are represented, rocks from Space, the so-called meteorites with a focus on the famous Nathan Meteorite (China) whose impact with the Earth has already been referenced in documents from the 16th century.
Its main banner consists of a Flying Reptile, the Brasileodactylus sp, from Chapada do Araripe (Ceará, Brazil) already studied by the Geology Department of the Natural History Museum in Karlsruhe, Germany and considered a unique species as well as being the only entire piece detected to date throughout the world.
The collection includes some dinosaurs and egg nests of the same species from the Gobi Desert and also some fragments of the Nathan meteorite, also from China that fell to Earth in the 16th century.
The museum contains 9416 fossils, 900 minerals, 1347 shells, 544 rock samples and a specialized library with a total of more than 10 thousand pieces.
The highlight of the collection is a fossil of the dinosaur species Brasileodactylus sp and the only entire specimen in the world found in Chapada do Araripe in the state of Ceará (Brazil).
The museum has an important collection of paleontology (fossils), mineralogy (minerals), malacology (shells) and petrography (rocks).
The museum opened to the public on August 1, 2009, with all the assets donated by Miguel Barbosa and his wife, Fernanda Barbosa, collected over more than fifty years. According to Miguel, he had several offers from abroad to receive his precious collection.
At the Museum, a long-term exhibition is on display to the public, the genesis of which came from the hands of the collector Miguel Barbosa and his wife, Fernanda Barbosa, who for around 50 years gathered a unique collection made up of thousands of fossils of incalculable cultural and scientific value.
The exhibition space has a dynamic presentation, using furniture and equipment designs based on modernity, the use of new technologies.
The public exhibition tells the story that begins with the formation of the Primitive Earth and the mutations it underwent over millions of years throughout the different Geological Epochs, from the Pre-Cambrian to the Quaternary, showing the entire evolution of life through the Municipal Collections of Paleontology, Mineralogy, Malacology and Petrography from the most diverse parts of the world.
Among the Museum's more than 10,000 fossils, the collection includes a superb Collection of Trilobites and some rare and very well-preserved specimens of Dinosaurs. The great beauty of the minerals with pieces still in rock that have already been cut will be an attraction for both national and foreign visitors.
In the Malacology Collection, Bivalves and some Gastropods stand out, from different sources, and in the Petrography Collection, the main rocks of the national territory are represented, rocks from Space, the so-called meteorites with a focus on the famous Nathan Meteorite (China) whose impact with the Earth has already been referenced in documents from the 16th century.
Its main banner consists of a Flying Reptile, the Brasileodactylus sp, from Chapada do Araripe (Ceará, Brazil) already studied by the Geology Department of the Natural History Museum in Karlsruhe, Germany and considered a unique species as well as being the only entire piece detected to date throughout the world.
The collection includes some dinosaurs and egg nests of the same species from the Gobi Desert and also some fragments of the Nathan meteorite, also from China that fell to Earth in the 16th century.
The museum contains 9416 fossils, 900 minerals, 1347 shells, 544 rock samples and a specialized library with a total of more than 10 thousand pieces.
The highlight of the collection is a fossil of the dinosaur species Brasileodactylus sp and the only entire specimen in the world found in Chapada do Araripe in the state of Ceará (Brazil).
