Oceonagrafia da UFRN Museum

The collection begins outside, where there is a skeleton of a blue whale, 25 feet long. Entering the museum, panels explain the formation of Earth, the composition of oceans, seas and lakes, and characteristics of major ecosystems.

The exhibition includes animal skeletons of dolphins, orca and humpback whales, striped dolphin and porpoise; lambaris there in the aquarium, catfish, Pope-land and amphibians (salamander and axolotl).

On the back of the museum, tanks meet a sea lion and Magellanic penguins. Annex, the museum plays the first installations Antarctic station Comandante Ferraz, mounted on the frozen continent. In the Eco-museum of the Powder Island (formerly the Powder House, 1856), 2 'Boat (6 th / Sun 14h/17h30; $ 2 crossing), two belvedere the center of Rio Grande.

Founded on September 8, 1953, the Oceanographic Museum maintains a public exhibition on the life and ocean dynamics, presented in panels, models and various equipment used in oceanographic research.

The panels of the museum rooms, shows a variety of shells that are part of the collection of molluscs, currently with 45,000 lots and considered the most important in South America Oceanographic Museum in work the following laboratories: Laboratory of Malacology, Marine Mammal Laboratory, Laboratory of Ornithology and Laboratory of Paleontology.

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