Museum of Natural Science

The building of the museum, made in neoclassical style, is decorated with bas-reliefs and sculptures of the famous artist Francesco Narvaez. The semicircular facade is framed by granite columns with marble spraying. On two floors of the museum there are almost one hundred and seventy thousand exhibits, from which ten collections are formed in different areas of history, ethnography, biology.

Every visitor to the museum will find something interesting. Archaeology lovers will be attracted by artifacts telling about the life of ancient peoples who inhabited the territory of South America: military weapons, jewelry and household items.

Those who are interested in the life of the seas-oceans will not leave indifferent the ichthyological section, where you can see river and ocean fish, a large collection of sea shells. Children adore zoological halls with numerous stuffed animals, including a giraffe, made with great reliability. Here are exhibited striking in size skulls of a mammoth and a whale.

In addition to the main exposition, you can visit a variety of thematic exhibitions regularly held in the museum.