The Geological Museum is located on the second floor of a former tertiary monastery in the Bairro Alto district. It is sometimes called the "Museum at the Museum" because since the uprising in the mid-nineteenth century, its exhibition and equipment has not changed. Specimens of minerals, fossils often several million years old are presented here.
The museum was founded in 1857. A large part of his collection is the collection of pioneers of Portuguese geology, Carlos Ribeiro, Nera Delgado, Pereira da Costa and Paul Choffat. The permanent exhibition occupies four monastery rooms. They are filled with wooden display cases from the 19th century. You can see specimens of minerals from around the world, as well as petrified forms of old life, such as sea animals, snails, mussels and insects embedded in amber. There are also bones of dinosaurs and fossil animals discovered during excavations in Portugal.
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