Inside the museum

In addition to the main building, the National Museum has two complementary structures: the Botanical Garden and the Alípio de Miranda Ribeiro building

The National Museum is located in the Quinta da Boa Vista

municipal park in the district of São Cristóvão, in the north of Rio de Janeiro.

The park is also home to the Botanical Garden and the Rio Zoo

 

Museum Library

A collection of 500,000 titles,

including 1,500 rare works

Graduate Center

Green Area

Vegetation from a range of

Brazilian ecosystems and

exotic species

Botany Department

The major highlight is the herbarium,

which has 550,000 specimens

Teaching Pavilion

Vertebrates Department

Among its 460,000 items is a

large collection of Brazilian

mammals

Botanical Garden

Distributed over an area of ​​40,000 m2,

the buildings in the Botanical Garden

include the museum's academic department

and storage for collections that are not

on display, known as the technical reserve.

These buildings are not open to visitors and

were not affected by the fire

Casa de Pedra

Holds the Brazilian archaeology

collection, composed mainly of

artifacts from middens

 

Alípio de Miranda
Ribeiro building



Inaugurated in 1957,

this annex houses the

invertebrates collection,

with 100,000 items, as

well as the conservation

and restoration lab,

the diptera lab, and

administrative offices.

It was not affected

by the fire

São Cristóvão Palace

The neoclassical building was

once the residence of the

Portuguese Royal Family and

the Brazilian Imperial Family

 

Total area 13,616 m2

Number of rooms 122

Zoo

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3rd Floor

2nd Floor

1st Floor

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The main museum is based in

the São Cristóvão Palace,

where most of the collections

were exhibited and stored.

The building was consumed

by the fire

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Inaugurated June 6, 1818

Collection more than 20 million items

Visitors 192,000 people (2017)

Budget R$643,500 (2017)

3rd Floor

2nd Floor

1st Floor

Housed two exhibitions,

academic spaces,

and technical reserve

Paleontology

Classrooms, research laboratories,

teachers' offices, and technical reserve

Meteorites

Graduate Library

Geology

Plant (R)evolution

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Roquette-Pinto Auditorium

Meteorites – From Genesis to the Apocalypse

Bendegó Meteorite

Accessible Science Exhibition

A Tyrannosaurus in the Museum

Werner Minerals Collection

3rd Floor

2nd Floor

Was primarily dedicated

to exhibitions

Coral Exhibition

Latimeria (rare genus of fish)

Paleontology

Archaeology/

History

Pre-Columbian

Archaeology

Brazilian

Archaeology

Ethnology

Furniture of

the Monarchy

Zoology

Technical Department

Shells, corals, butterflies

Evolution of Man

Mediterranean Cultures

Mediterranean Cultures

Giant sloth (Megafauna)

Empresses

1st Floor

Paleoart

Ancient Egypt

Birds

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The Karajá

Oratory

Luzia Skull, hunter-gatherers

Middens

Maxakalisaurus

Brazilian Indigenous Ethnology

Kumbukumbu – Africa, Memory, and Heritage

Pacific Cultures

Chronology (museum timeline)

Between Two Worlds Exhibition (Ambassadors Room)

Furniture of the Monarchy (Throne Room)

3rd Floor

Closed to visitors, this floor was occupied by the Memory and Archive section, laboratories, classrooms, technical reserve, and the administrative department

2nd Floor

1st Floor

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