National Museum of Natural History, Lisbon

The National Museum of Natural History is housed in a monumental building near Príncipe Real, it also holds an exotic Botanic Garden.

National Museum of Natural History
© Turismo de Lisboa

The National Museum of Natural History (Museu Nacional de História Natural), coordinated by the Lisbon University, is one of the biggest museums in Portugal dedicated to natural history, botanic and science. It has many different temporary and permanent exhibition that aim to promote science and the understandment of the surrounding world.

Botanic Garden © Museu NHN

At the Natural History National Museum you might find 11 long term exhibitions with different themes from botanic to mathematical games, dinosaurs, minerals and many others.
Apart from these exhibitions, the Natural History Museum promotes other temporary exhibitions and different activities such as scientific clubs, Summer Science clubs, Holidays at the museum, birthday parties and much more.

In this museum you might also find many Botanic, Mineral, Geology, Zoology and Anthropology collections used on a daily base to test new scientific hypothesis.

Nearby the museum, you might find the nearby Botanic Garden, with an area of 4 hectare where you might observe different species from all over the world, specially cycads, gymnosperms, palms and tropical fig trees. There is even a Seeds Bank where many seeds from threatened species are held.

The botanic garden has the main goal of bringing society’s understanding closer to plants, the basis of life on earth.

The Natural History Museum in Lisbon also contains a fabulous butterfly greenhouse considered the first conservation and creation centre of iberian butterflies. In this space you might meet the different species on different stages of their life cycle, in the egg, as caterpillars, inside the chrysalis and as adult butterflies.

More information:

Location:

Rua da Escola Politécnica, 56

Entrance fee:

National Museum of Natural History and Science

General Admission: €6
Visitors 65 or older: €5
Students: €3
Family Ticket (2 adults + one or more children): €15
Lisbon Card holders: 10% discount
Children under 10 and all visitors on Sundays from 10:00 to 13:00: Free

Botanical Garden

General Admission: €5
Visitors 65 or older: €4
Students: €2.50
Family Ticket (2 adults + one or more children): €12.50
Lisbon Card holders: 10% discount
Children under 10 and all visitors on Sundays from 10:00 to 13:00: Free

Combined Ticket (Museum and Botanical Garden)

General Admission: €8
Visitors 65 or older: €6.50
Students: €4
Family Ticket (2 adults + one or more children): €20
Lisbon Card holders: 10% discount
Children under 10 and all visitors on Sundays from 10:00 to 13:00: Free

Schedule:

Museum:
Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 17:00
Closed Mondays and holidays

Botanical Garden:
1 October to 31 March, every day from 10:00 to 17:00
1 April to 30 September, every day from 10:00 to 20:00
Closed on 1 January and 25 December

How to get here
Bus: 706, 709, 774, 720, 727, 738, 758, 773
Tram: 24
Metro: Rato (Yellow Line)

Telephone:

(+351) 21 392 1800

Website:

www.mnhnc.ulisboa.pt

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