| Manaus - Museums - The Museum of Natural Sciences |
The Naturalist Association of Amazonas administrates the Amazon Natural Sciences
Museum. On the museums patrimony, there are lots of stuffed and mounted animals from the Amazon jungle and several and fish species. Among them,
the piraíbas, tucunarés e tambaquis stands out. One thing that also calls the attention of the visitors are the pirarucus, a two meter long and
150 kg fish.
Besides fishs, in the museum’s patrimony there’s various kinds of insects, even
rare butterflies and big spiders. The biggest of them is the Hercules beetle, 16 cm long.
Address: Estrada de Belém, no number
Colônia Cachoeira Grande Aleixo
Phone: 55-92-644-2799
Open : monday to saturday, from 9 am to 5 pm |
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