Research
The scientific departments (together with the main collections) are housed in the "Palace of the Colonies", the "Stanley Pavilion" and in the CAPA building.
There are 4 departments:
- Department of Cultural Anthropology
- Ethnography
- Archaeology and Prehistory
- Linguistics and Ethnomusicology
- Ethnosociology and Ethnohistory
- Department of Geology and Mineralogy
- General Geology
- Mineralogy and Petrography
- Cartography and Photo interpretation
- Physical and Mineral chemistry
- Department of Zoology
- Vertebrates (Ornithology, Ichthyology, Herpetology, Osteology and Mammalogy)
- Entomology
- Invertebrates non-insects (Arachnology, Myriapodology, Acarology)
- Department of History and General Scientific Services
- History of the Colonial Period
- Contemporary History
- Agricultural and Forest economics (Geomorphology, Laboratory of Wood Biology)
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