Emilio Goeldi Museum

The Emilio Goeldi Museum is a Brazilian research institute and museum located in the city of Belem.

The museum was founded in 1866 by Domingush Soaresh Ferreira Penn as a museum of natural architecture and ethnography of the state of Pará. The museum was renamed after the Swiss naturalist Emil August Goeldi, who reorganized the institute and was its director from 1894 to 1905.

The purpose of the museum is to study, catalog and analyze the biological and socio-cultural diversity of the Amazon lowland, which contributes to its regional development and cultural memory of the region.

Currently, the museum has three bases: The Zoobotâ nico Botanical Park, established in 1895, the Research Campus established in 1979, and the Ferreira Penn Research Station, opened in 1993.

The museum is open to visitors from 9:00 to 17:00 daily except Monday.