Museu de História Natural e da Ciência da Universidade do Porto

The Museu de História Natural is part of the Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto (Faculty of Science of the Porto University). It was created in 1996 and has several poles of other museological nucleus of former institutions. This museum has three rooms open to the public, the mineralogy room Montenegro de Andrade, the palaeontology room Wenceslau de Lima and the archaeology and pre- historic Mendes Côrrea.

Contacts


Praça de Gomes Teixeira
4099-002,Porto

    Characteristics


  • Museums
  • Guided tours

    opening hours


  • monday: 14:30-17:00
  • wednesday: 14:30-17:00

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