Museu Geológico Valdemar Lefèvre, Geological museum in Barra Funda district, São Paulo, Brazil.
The Museu Geológico Valdemar Lefèvre is a geological museum located in the Barra Funda district within Água Branca Park in São Paulo. It houses approximately 3,500 specimens of minerals, rocks, and fossils in a compact building space.
The Geographic and Geological Commission of São Paulo was created on 27 March 1886 to survey the territory during the coffee boom, and its expeditions mapped soil, climate and rivers until 1931. Its mineralogy and palaeontology collections passed to the Instituto Geográfico e Geológico, which opened this museum on 14 November 1967 in Água Branca Park. In 1986 it was named after Valdemar Lefèvre, a former director of the institute.
The museum's name honours Valdemar Lefèvre, an engineer and former director of the Instituto Geográfico e Geológico, added in 1986. Its educational programme runs monitored workshops on didactic collections of rocks, minerals and fossils, and institutional exhibitions during Environment Week in parks across São Paulo. The Krantz International Collection, the only one of its kind in Brazil, groups 500 mineral species by chemical family.
Plan your visit with enough time to explore the collections at a comfortable pace. The museum is located within Água Branca Park, so it works well to combine it with other activities in the park or nearby area.
The collection includes ancient fossils of single-celled algae from Itapeva that are more than 2.6 billion years old. These rarely seen specimens offer a glimpse into the earliest stages of life on Earth.
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