Museum of Historia Natural de Maputo

Visit because of interest in gemstones

Maputo's Natural History Museum is well worth a visit by anyone interested in Mozambique, its gemstones, and its natural resources. It is nicely laid out and very well maintained.

Fun but not so well maintained

The exhibits were interesting but some rooms or walkways were not accessible due to maintenance needing to be done. We found the outdoor dinosaurs fun and some of the indoor exhibits very interesting ...

Overview of Mozambican fauna

Housed in a beautiful Portugese rococo style building, the museum's main exhibition is one of stuffed animals. Especially animals of prey like lions and leopards are often depicted in bloody scenes at...

Short visit

The museum is pretty easy to navigate, you can get through it in 30 mins. It costs about 100 Mets per person. I'd recommend it if you've got little ones. They'll enjoy the animals and carvings. The on...

Interesting collection of elephant foetus in formula

Original Text

The Museum of Natural History was founded in 1911, contains an interesting sample of elephant foetus in the form of each of the 22 months of pregnancy.