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Museu Nacional (Brazil)

LC control no.n 50052738
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Corporate name headingMuseu Nacional (Brazil)
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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 alsoHierarchical superior: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
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Beginning date1818-06-06
Associated countryBrazil
LocatedRio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Found inWorld 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)