Maputo’s Natural History Museum is offering an unprecedented experience to the public with the creation of an internet channel that allows interactive visits in virtual format.
The news comes at a time when the museum is closed for a period of refurbishment. Before the start of the work, which has been underway since October 2023, the museum was digitised, recreating a visit to all of the museum’s main spaces.
‘This was certainly an important activity that will make it possible to accurately visualise the before and after of our Museum and maintain a historical memory of how the Museum was in order to preserve it for future generations.’
Created in 1911, the Natural History Museum tries to recreate and represent animals in their habitat, in the jungle, savannah and other environments of the animal kingdom. This is where a type of fish, SELECANTO, discovered in 1991, is exhibited.
Among its collections, the zoological collection stands out, with embalmed specimens of a wide variety of mammals (200), birds (10,137), insects (176,527 !!!), invertebrates (1,250) and reptiles (150). Among the specimens on display is a collection, probably unique in the world, of elephant foetuses from one month to 22 months.
Visits, which can be made via an internet-connected device, can be made here.
