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The Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência occupies the buildings of the former Polytechnic Academy, combining natural history collections with an attached botanical garden. Its mineral and zoological collections date to the 18th century.
The collections originate from the 18th-century Royal Museum of Natural History, destroyed in the 1755 earthquake and rebuilt. The current museum was reorganized in 2011 to merge the former natural history and science museums.