Botanical Museum

The Botanical Museum, located in the Portuguese city of Beja, was founded on the basis of the Polytechnic University and occupies one of the premises of the educational building. The main goals of the museum are the preservation, study and development of economic botany and ethnobotany.

The expositions of the museum acquaint visitors with the history of the development of the connection between man and nature. Among the exhibits of temporary exhibitions you can see products from plants, various raw materials and natural objects processed at different times by people. The collection of the museum consists of 1500 items, including various spices, samples of resins, vegetable fibers and dyes, aromatic and medicinal plants - all that nature gives for human use.

One of the most interesting exhibitions of the museum is the exhibition of fossils, represented by samples of coal, amber, oil and other types of fossils. Here you can see photos of the Petrified Forest - Arizona National Park and the Amber Room of the Catherine Palace of St. Petersburg.