MUHNAC - University of Lisbon

PT

(Partner)

The National Museum of Natural History and Science (MUHNAC) of the University of Lisbon is the largest Portuguese science museum. The Museum integrates several historical buildings, two botanical gardens classified as national monuments and the largest collections of natural history and history of science, with more than three million specimens, artefacts, manuscripts, drawings and photographs, dated from the 16th to the 21st centuries. Part of these collections were constituted in the context of Portuguese colonial activities throughout the 20th century, thus containing historically and culturally sensitive objects. These objects were assembled in scientific missions, promoted by the Junta de Investigações do Ultramar.