The Museum of Zoology belongs to the University of Sao Paulo, and most of the planning is about what you carry. Bags and backpacks have to stay out of the gallery, and the free left-luggage space at the entrance only holds so much, so the large day bag a family would normally haul around a museum is the one thing to leave behind – with small children, that is the real friction of the visit. Food works out better than it first looks: the museum keeps no restaurant of its own, but the streets around it have places to eat, and the park next door has open-air space for whatever you brought. If someone is dropping you off, that is done from the left-hand lane of Avenida Nazare in the centre-to-district direction, or in one of the nearby streets.
Museum of Zoology of the University of São Paulo
A university natural history museum in the Ipiranga district of Sao Paulo, built around a zoological collection founded in 1890, with the lawns of Parque da Independencia a few metres from the door.
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Why kids will love it
The subject here is animals – a university zoological collection, presented as a natural history museum. The temporary exhibition is the part set up to be used rather than only looked at: braille texts, Libras sign-language translation, an audio guide through an app, and materials meant to be touched. For a child who would rather handle something than read a label, that exhibition is where to start.
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