LC control no. | n 50052738 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Corporate name heading | Museu Nacional (Brazil) |
Variant(s) | Rio de Janeiro. Museu Nacional Brazil. Museu Nacional Brazil. National Museum National Museum (Brazil) Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Museu Nacional Museu Nacional--UFRJ |
See also | Hierarchical superior: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro |
Beginning date | 1818-06-06 |
Associated country | Brazil |
Located | Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) |
Found in | World of learning, 1981-82 (Museu Nacional (National Museum) f. 1818) Garcia Junior, A.R. O Brasil como representação, 1981: t.p. (Museu Nacional--UFRJ) Tel. dir. Rio de Janeiro, 1982, under Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Museu Nacional; addr., Quinta da Boa Vista) World of learning, 1982-83 (Museu Nacional, National Museum; addr., Quinta da Boa Vista) University not mentioned. Wikipedia, December 19, 2021 (National Museum of Brazil; Portuguese: Museu Nacional; logo: Museu Nacional, UFRJ; was Brazil's oldest scientific institution; founded by King João VI of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves on 6 June 1818 under the name of "Royal Museum"; in 1946 it was incorporated into the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (then the University of Brazil); it had one of the largest collections of natural history and anthropological artifacts in the world; the palace building it was located in was largely destroyed in a fire on 2 September 2018; in the wake of the fire, the ruined edifice is being treated as an archaeological site and undergoing reconstruction efforts) |