Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Amazonian research museum in Belém whose walled park holds native plants, animals and an 1911 aquarium.
Founded in 1866 and reorganised from 1894 by the Swiss naturalist Emílio Goeldi, this is the oldest research institution in the Amazon and one of the oldest scientific museums in Brazil. It is now a federal body under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, with research divisions in zoology, botany, earth sciences and human sciences. Its collections of Amazonian specimens, indigenous material culture and archaeological ceramics run to millions of items and are used by researchers from around the world.
Most visitors come for the Parque Zoobotânico, a walled garden of about five hectares opened in 1895 in the São Brás district, where paths wind among rainforest trees, pools and enclosures holding manatees, jaguars, caimans, harpy eagles and turtles. Within the park are the Jacques Huber Aquarium of 1911, the Domingos Soares Ferreira Penna exhibition pavilion known as the Rocinha, and the Eduardo Galvão exhibition centre used for temporary displays.
Highlights
- Walled zoobotanical park opened in 1895, the first of its kind in Brazil
- Jacques Huber Aquarium, in use since 1911
- Amazonian collections of zoology, botany and indigenous material culture
- Enclosures for manatees, jaguars, caimans and harpy eagles
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