Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi

Coordinates: 1°27′09″S 48°28′35″W / 1.4525°S 48.4764°W / -1.4525; -48.4764
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Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
zoological garden
DirectorAna Luisa Albernaz
Websitewww.museu-goeldi.br
National Historic Heritage of Brazil
Designated1994
Reference no.536
[1]

The Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, commonly shortened MPEG, is a Brazilian research institution and museum located in the city of

Émil August Goeldi, who reorganized the institution and was its director from 1894 to 1905.[2] It is now the "main research center on natural systems and sociocultural processes of the Brazilian Amazon." The museum and zoological park are listed as protected sites by both the National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage, and the Department of Historic, Artistic and Cultural Heritage of the state of Pará.[1]

Activities

The institution has the mission of researching, cataloging and analyzing the biological and sociocultural

Amazon Basin, contributing to its cultural memory and its regional development. It has also the aim of increasing public awareness of science in the Amazon by means of its museums, botanical garden, zoological park
, etc.

The Museum maintains a scientific research station in the high Amazon forest (Estação Científica Ferreira Penna), which was inaugurated in 1993, with 330 square kilometres (130 sq mi) in the Caxiuanã National Forest, municipality of Melgaço, Pará.

The museum provided assistance in preparing the management plan for the Grão-Pará Ecological Station between 2007 and 2011. This is a strictly protected environmental unit covering 4,245,819 hectares (10,491,650 acres) of Amazon forest created in 2006, the largest such reserve in the world.[3]

Botany

The Museum staff in

fruits, woods, pollen, histological sections and exsicata (dried and pressed specimens).[4]

Zoology

In

Insecta and Mollusca
.

Earth sciences

In this area, there are research groups on the

soils
). The paleontological collections harbored by the Museum have more than 6,000 species, and the mineralogical collections more than 1,000 samples.

Human sciences

The existence of a rich

indigenous cultures from Brazil, Africa, Peru and Suriname. The linguistics sector studies many aboriginal languages.[2]

Past directors

João Baptista Gonçalves da Rocha (1872–1873); Joaquim Pedro Corrêa de Freitas, Diretor de Instrução Pública (1873–1881); José Coelho da Gama e Abreu, Barão de Marajó (1881–1882); Antonio Manuel Gonçalves Tocantins (1882);

Jacques Hüber (1907–1914); Marie Emilie Snethlage (1914–1921); Rodolfo Siqueira Rodrigues (substitute); Carlos Estevão de Oliveira (1930–1936); José Cândido de Melo Carvalho
(1955–1960). José Seixas Lourenço(); Guilherme Mauricio Souza Marcos de La Penha(1985–1991).

Protected status

The Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi and the zoological park are listed as a historic structure by both the National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage (IPHAN) and the Department of Historic, Artistic and Cultural Heritage of the state of Pará. The zoological park was listed as a historic site by IPHAN in 1994 under the name Parque Zoobotânico do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. The Architectural and Landscape Ensemble, Collection and Collections of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (Conjunto Arquitetônico e Paisagístico, Acervo e Coleções do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi) was listed as a historic site by the Department of Historic, Artistic and Cultural Heritage of the state of Pará in 1982.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Belém – Parque Zoobotânico do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi" (in Portuguese). iPatrimonio. 2022. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  2. ^
    Wikidata Q113640171
    .
  3. ^ José Alberto da Silva Colares (July 2011), Plano de Manejo da Estação Ecológica do Grão-Pará: Resumo Executivo (PDF) (in Portuguese), Belém: Secretaria de Estado de Meio Ambiente (SEMA), pp. 7ff, retrieved 2016-05-12
  4. Wikidata Q113640171
    .
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