Inside the museum
In addition to the main building, the National Museum has two complementary structures: the Botanical Garden and the AlÃpio 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
AliÌpio 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
National Museum
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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