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Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi

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Belem, State Of Para, Brazil
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About Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi

The Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi is a Brazilian research establishment and historical center situated in the city of Belem, territory of Para. It was established in 1866 by Domingos Soares Ferreira Penna as the Para Museum of Natural History and Ethnography, and was later named to pay tribute to Swiss naturalist Emil August Goeldi, who redesigned the foundation and was its chief from 1894 to 1905. The foundation has the mission of looking into, recording and examining the organic and sociocultural decent iety of the Amazon Basin, adding to its social memory and its provincial improvement. It has likewise the point of expanding open consciousness of science in the Amazon by methods for its exhibition halls, professional flowerbed, zoological park, and so forth.
The Museum keeps up a logical research station in the high Amazon woods, which was introduced in 1993, with 330 square kilometers in the Caxiuana National Forest. The Museum researches on the Amazon fauna, its topographical circulation, conduct, environment, scientific categorization and systematics in mammalogy, ornithology, herpetology, ichthyology and entomology. The zoological accumulations incorporate around 150,000 examples of vertebrate entire bodies saved in liquor and taxidermy, skeletons, skins, eggs, anatomical parts, and so on; and in addition in excess of 1 million examples of spineless creatures, including Arthropoda, Insecta and Mollusca.
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