National Museum of Natural History – Peace

Minibus lines: 394, 257, 201, 239, 343, 243, 905, 800, 282, 385, 905 y 844
Bus lines: 42, 44, 21, 155
Truffles: Line to Cota Cota©National Museum of Natural History – MNHN
Calle 26 by Cota Cota (Ovidio Suarez)
Box No. 8706
Telephone and Fax: 591 -2- 2795364
ínfo-mnhn@mnhn.gob.bo
La Paz – Bolivia

Altitude 3650 masl
Temperatura mine. 5 C – Max. 23 C

General information

• Official name: National Museum of Natural History (MNHN)

• Location: Calle 26 s/n, area Quota Quota, Peace.

• Creation: founded in 1980 by the National Academy of Sciences of Bolivia.

• Institutional nature: is a decentralized public institution whose mission is to investigate, guard, exhibit and analyze the natural heritage of Bolivia—flora, fauna and fossils—as well as promoting environmental education and public knowledge.

Collections, departments and exhibits

• The institutional structure of the museum includes the departments of Zoology, Botany and Paleontology.

• Zoology: houses collections of vertebrates and invertebrates (mammals, reptiles, amphibians, pieces, insects, etc.). In the invertebrate section there are hundreds of thousands of specimens.

• Botany: It has a herbarium with abundant specimens, used for taxonomic research, floristic and ecological.

• Paleontology: works with fossils representative of Bolivia's biological past.

• Permanent exhibitions: more than 500 Exposed samples of Bolivia's past and current biodiversity (flora, fauna, fossils).

• Some themes exhibited:

  1. Fish migration in Bolivia

  2. Invertebrate diversity (butterflies, arthropods)

  3. Reptiles

  4. Native mammals such as quirquincho, monkeys, jaguar, deer, etc.