Geological Museum
Museu Geológico, Rua Academia das Ciências, 19-2º, Lisboa 1200-003
Phone: +351 213 463 915 - Fax: +351 213 424 609
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The Geological Museum belongs to the Institute of Mining and Geology; it was founded in 1857 and is housed in an ancient convent in the Bairro Alto. The museum has an excellent collection of paleontological and archaeological objects, minerals and rocks and has become a focal point of Portuguese geology; it also has a speciality reference library. The exhibits are divided into various collections, Paleontology, Portuguese Stratigraphy, Pre-Historic Archaeology, Mineralogy, Lithology and Scientific Instruments. For those interested in museology, the internal architecture and exhibition furniture combine to create a rare example of the 19th century museum.
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