Science Museum of the University of Coimbra, University science museum in Coimbra, Portugal.

The Science Museum of the University of Coimbra occupies the Laboratorio Chimico, an 18th-century building erected under the Marquis of Pombal in 1772, the first laboratory in Portugal for teaching and research in chemistry. Inaugurated on 5 December 2006, it merged the university's physics, natural history, mineralogy and geology collections. Its permanent exhibition, Segredos da Luz e da Matéria, is interactive and aimed at visitors of all ages.

After education reforms by the Marquis of Pombal in 1772, the university and its departments started building scientific collections that were later brought together. This reorganization in 2006 united long-standing collections under one building.

The museum's name is tied to the 1772 Pombaline reform, when science teaching gained weight at the university and its instrument and specimen collections began. A temporary exhibition here marked the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th of On the Origin of Species. In 2013 the site The Best Colleges ranked it among the world's 30 best university museums, citing its botany, physics, anthropology, zoology and mineralogy collections.

The museum occupies the 18th-century Laboratorio Chimico, built under the Marquis of Pombal in 1772, at 40°12′37″N, 8°25′25″W in Coimbra. Its restoration for the museum was designed by architects João Mendes Ribeiro, Desirée Pedro and Carlos Antunes. The permanent exhibition Segredos da Luz e da Matéria is interactive and aimed at all ages.

The museum opened on 5 December 2006 in the Laboratorio Chimico, a building erected under the Marquis of Pombal in 1772 as Portugal's first laboratory for teaching and research in chemistry. Its restoration for the museum was designed by architects João Mendes Ribeiro, Desirée Pedro and Carlos Antunes. In 2013 the site The Best Colleges ranked it among the world's 30 best university museums, citing its botany, physics, anthropology, zoology and mineralogy collections.