Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Uruguay, Natural history museum in Ciudad Vieja district, Montevideo, Uruguay.
The Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Uruguay is a natural history museum in Montevideo that houses animal specimens, fossils, minerals, and objects from the region. The collections span different scientific fields including zoology, geology, and paleontology.
The museum was founded in 1837 and opened its doors on July 18, 1838, as one of the oldest natural history institutions in South America. It became an important center for scientific research into the continent's natural world.
The museum holds collections that reflect the natural life of Uruguay, from animal specimens to rocks from different regions of the country. Visitors can see which species are native here and how the landscape has been shaped over time.
The museum is located in the city and is easy to reach, but like many natural history collections it requires time to explore properly. It makes sense to plan several hours to see the different exhibition areas.
The museum's collections actually helped clarify some of the evolutionary questions that naturalist Charles Darwin had raised. This made the museum an important partner in scientific research of the 1800s.
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