{"id":59042,"date":"2026-10-13T19:54:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realdreams.pt\/?post_type=to-visit&#038;p=59042"},"modified":"2026-10-13T19:54:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:54:20","slug":"museu-nacional-de-historia-natural-e-da-ciencia","status":"publish","type":"to-visit","link":"https:\/\/realdreams.pt\/pt\/attractions-to-visit\/regions-of-portugal\/lisbon-surroundings\/museu-nacional-de-historia-natural-e-da-ciencia\/","title":{"rendered":"Museu Nacional de Hist\u00f3ria Natural e da Ci\u00eancia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Museu Nacional de Hist\u00f3ria Natural e da Ci\u00eancia, in Lisbon, is one of the great science museums of Portugal: natural history collections, laboratories of the old polytechnic and a historic building in the Pr\u00edncipe Real that gathers zoology, botany, mineralogy and the memory of Portuguese science. Its Galeria da Biodiversidade and the old chemistry laboratory are among the treasures of the museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The museum<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The museum belongs to the University of Lisbon and occupies the old buildings of the Escola Polit\u00e9cnica, where generations of scientists taught and studied. Its collections \u2014 from mammals and birds to herbaria and minerals \u2014 grew with the university and with the great scientific voyages of the nineteenth century; today the museum brings them to the public in exhibitions that speak of the diversity of life and of the history of science in Portugal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What to see<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Galeria da Biodiversidade and its living exhibits.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Laboratorio Chimico and the old teaching rooms of the polytechnic.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The zoological and mineral collections of the museum.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The gardens and courtyards of the Pr\u00edncipe Real quarter around it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Visiting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The museum is in the Pr\u00edncipe Real, in the centre of Lisbon, reached on foot from the metro and among the streets of the old quarters. The exhibitions and their programmes follow the official information of the museum, and the visit combines well with the gardens and museums of the surrounding quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nearby<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">O <a href=\"https:\/\/realdreams.pt\/pt\/attractions-to-visit\/regions-of-portugal\/lisbon-surroundings\/museu-de-lisboa\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Museu de Lisboa<\/a> e a <a href=\"https:\/\/realdreams.pt\/pt\/attractions-to-visit\/regions-of-portugal\/lisbon-surroundings\/museu-nacional-de-arte-contemporanea-do-chiado\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Museu Nacional de Arte Contempor\u00e2nea do Chiado<\/a> complete a day of museums in the centre of the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.museus.ulisboa.pt\/\" rel=\"noopener\">museus.ulisboa.pt<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Image credit: Museu Nacional de Hist\u00f3ria Natural e da Ci\u00eancia, by Mister No, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The science museum of the University of Lisbon, at the Pr\u00edncipe Real.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59037,"parent":12301,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1074],"tags":[1072],"attraction-categ":[1058],"localidade":[94],"content-type":[],"grupo-de-experiencias":[],"experiencia-tipo":[],"gestao":[1102],"regioes_turisticas_term":[223],"class_list":["post-59042","to-visit","type-to-visit","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city","tag-region-of-portugal","attraction-categ-museums-art-galleries","localidade-lisbon","gestao-56-publicado","regioes_turisticas_term-lisbon-and-surroundings"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.8 (Yoast SEO v28.7) - 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