Natural History Museum (Musuem of Natural History) description and photos - Mozambique: Maputo (Topic)

Natural History Museum (Musuem of Natural History) description and photos - Mozambique: Maputo. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Musuem of Natural History.

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The National Museum of Natural History of Mozambique was founded in 1913 as a provincial museum of local lore. The founder of the museum is the Portuguese captain Alberto Graca, a teacher at the October 5 School, where a small selection of artifacts telling about the history and nature of Mozambique was originally housed.

The museum changed its location several times until in 1932 its collection was not were transported to a palace built in the neo-Manueline style, where they are now. The building, built in 1911, originally housed an elementary school. In the 30s of the XX century, the museum was named after Dr. Alvaro de Castro, who was the local governor general, who took care of preserving the historical heritage of the inhabitants of Mozambique. After the revolution in the country, leading to the declaration of independence, the museum was renamed the Natural History Museum of Maputo. In 2013, its centenary was celebrated.

The museum is famous for its collection of stuffed animals - inhabitants of the African savannahs. Here you can see stuffed lions, giraffes, hippos, rhinos, etc. One of the museum's gems is a stuffed coelacanth - a fish that was considered extinct, but was discovered in 1938 on the coast of South Africa. Since the First World War, a visual aid has been preserved that tells about the development of pregnancy in an elephant. Collections of images, statues, musical instruments and household items of various Mozambican tribes are of great interest.

A garden with paintings by the artist Malangatan and statues of dinosaurs adjoins the Natural History Museum.

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