Discover the largest Oceanographic Museum in the Americas and the 3rd largest in the world with more than 1400 pieces on display so that visitors can learn about the biodiversity of our Brazilian navy. The children are enchanted and I can already anticipate that there will be interactivity with them, making the tour even more attractive!
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The Univali Oceanographic Museum (MOVI), was created in 1987 and is among the four main collections of natural history in Brazil, and in terms of oceanographic matters, it is the largest in the Americas and the third largest in the world.
There are more than 200,000 pieces and the exhibition features around 1,400 of them.
The Museum is divided into themes:
- blue ward – Emergence of life and Oceanography with fossils from each geological era;
- red wing – Marine invertebrates, with a wide variety of sharks and rays;
- green ward – Cartilaginous fish;
- brown ward – Bony fish, including the famous Tarpon and the oceanic swordfish;
- gray ward – Marine reptiles, mostly sea turtles;
- beige wing – Seabirds, including all species of penguins;
- black wing – Marine mammals telling the history and commercial exploitation of whales in SC, also showing the different species of dolphins and whales from southern Brazil.
Touch lab for kids
A good idea is to involve children in gaining knowledge and respect for nature.
The laboratory has a themed room, where participants will touch and feel the characteristics, shapes, whether it is hot or cold, whether they have shells or scales of different marine animals.
To do this activity, an additional amount of R$ 20.00 (full price) or R$ 10.00 (half price) is paid.
Another option is mediation together with the laboratory, in which participants will have a guide who presents the entire museum and answers their questions while interacting. In this case, the mediator guides at least a group of 10 people and the prices are: R$ 40.00 (full price) and R$ 20.00 (half price).
Entry Value
Full Entry – R$ 40.00; Half Entry – R$ 20.00; Children up to 3 years old do not pay; Additional Ticket – (Touch Laboratory) R$20.00 and Additional Ticket – (Touch Laboratory) – Half R$10.00.
What are the opening hours of the Oceanographic Museum?
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday: 2 pm to 6 pm.
contact phone: (47) 3341-5570; (47) 3341-5577 and (47) 3341-5570 (whats).
Where is the museum?
Address: Av. Sambaqui, 318 on the banks of BR-101 in Balneário Piçarras – SC.
What is in the Oceanographic Museum?
The largest Oceanographic Museum in the Americas and the 3rd largest in the world has more than 1400 pieces on display so that visitors can learn about the biodiversity of our Brazilian navy. Among them: sea turtles, whales, fish of different species, pinquins, fossils and their entire history.
How important is the Oceanographic Museum?
One of the museum's main objectives is to transmit knowledge and share the history and everything that has been done and can be done to preserve marine ecosystems.
Also finding answers to problems encountered on a daily basis locally and globally related to climate and the exploration of marine ecosystems.
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