Educational Museum Gama D'Eça

Museum Educational Gama D'Eça
Established	1913
Location	Rua do Acampamento, 81. Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Type	Paleontology, Natural history museum.
Director	Maria Izabel M. Rocha Duarte
Website	www.ufsm.br/museuedu

The Educational Museum Gama D'Eça is located in the center of Santa Maria city, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The current headquarters of the museum, located at Rua do Acamapamento Street, 81. The schedule of visits to the Museum is from Monday to Friday from 8am to 12am and from 1pm to 5pm. Coordinates: 29°41′15″S 53°48′24″W / 29.687503°S 53.806714°W / -29.687503; -53.806714

Building

The building was built in 1913 by Dr. Astrogildo Cesar de Azevedo. This house was designed by architect and German Theodor Viederspalm construction work accompanied by engineer Henry Schultz. The imposing building occupies an area of 533.80 square meters, divided between its two floors.

Symbol of the museum

Rhynchosaur.

The symbol of the Museum is the Rhynchosaur (Scaphonyx fischeri), because through this reptile, first found in Santa Maria, in 1902 by Dr. Jango Fischer, the distinguished English paleontologist Arthur Smith Woodward determined the age of Santa Maria Formation dated Mesozoic Era, Upper Triassic period (about 220 million years). The name Scaphonyx Fischer was given in honor of its discoverer. This gave the initiative to study geopark of paleorrota.

Patron of the museum

Museums of Paleorrota.

Museum of Paleontology Irajá Damiani Pinto Museum of Natural Sciences Foundation Zoo Botanical Rio Grande do Sul Museum of Science and Technology (PUCRS) Museum of Geological History of Rio Grande do Sul Educational Museum Gama D'Eça. Museum Vincente Pallotti. Museum Aristides Carlos Rodrigues. Paleontological and Archeological Museum Walter Ilha. Museum Daniel Cargnin.

GAMA d'EÇA, Jose Maria Coelho da Gama Lobo d'Eça, Baron of Saican, was born in Frame of Alagoinha, Santa Catarina, on 15 September 1793. Son of Brigadier Jose Coelho da Gama Lobo d'Eça and D. Elisa Joaquina da Conceicao Coimbra. For the forums of nobility built square in the Rules under the command of his father, as a cadet at 5 years of age, at 15 years participated in the campaign as Campanha Cisplatina, at 17 assumed the command of Colonel and Grenadier Company of the militia. He came to Santa Maria, ordered by the Viscount de Castro, to establish their headquarters here.

External links

• Museum Educational Gama D'Eça (Portuguese)