Sintra Natural History Museum


The Sintra Natural History Museum is a museum of natural history located in the historic center of the village of Sintra. The museum has both at national and international level due to the quality and rarity of many of its exhibits.

History

The museum was established in 2009 in the building of the 19th century, and displays thousands of pieces having scientific importance gathered by the collector Miguel Barbosa and his wife Fernanda Barbosa. Children of Eduardo and his wife donated this entomological and malacological estate to the Municipality of Sintra, and then they are placed in the Sintra Natural History Museum.

Overview

The museum has Temporary Exhibition Room prepared for hosting exhibitions and events; Reserve and Laboratory for treatment and study of the pieces; a small specialized Documentation Service; as well as a store in addition to Permanent Exhibition room. The Educational Service of the museum displays presentation permanent exhibition to “tell a story” – the formation of the Primitive Earth and mutations it has undergone over the millions of years of the different Geological Epochs, from Precambrian to Quaternary. It shows the whole evolution of life through the Municipal Collections of Paleontology, Mineralogy, Malacology and Petrography from the most diversified parts of the world.

Collections

It is the 4th Natural History Museum in the Region of Great Lisbon and differs with its uniqueness having pieces covering all the continents of the Earth. There are more than 10000 fossils, a collection of trilobites and some rare and well preserved specimens of dinosaurs. Minerals with parts of rock, isolated and stoned minerals are also exhibited.
The Museum is composed of a collection of paleontology ; a collection of mineralogy ; A collection of malacology ; A collection of petrography.
Bivalves and some Gastropods from diverse origins are exhibited In Malacology collection. In the Petrography Collection, not only the main rocks from the national areas, but also meteorites with Meteorite of Nantan are displayed to visitors.

Exhibits