[1] The museum has both at national and international level due to the quality and rarity of many of its exhibits.

The educational service of the museum displays presentation permanent exhibition to “tell a story” – the formation of the primitive Earth and mutations it has undergone over the millions of years of the different geological epochs, from Precambrian to Quaternary.

It shows the whole evolution of life through the municipal collections of paleontology, mineralogy, malacology and petrography from the most diversified parts of the world.

[3] It is the 4th natural history museum in the region of Great Lisbon (Portuguese: Região da Grande Lisboa) and differs with its uniqueness having pieces covering all the continents of the Earth.

In the petrography collection, not only the main rocks from the national areas, but also the Nantan meteorite and others are displayed to visitors.