Experts' Choice Award Museum of Natural History (Municipal Museum of Funchal)
What the experts agree on
Housed in a grand palace, this charming museum showcases Madeira's unique wildlife through stuffed fauna and an aging aquarium, with particularly impressive displays of local sharks and exotic sea creatures.
“Displays land and aquatic animal life of the archipelago. Specimens include moray eels, eagle rays, scorpion fish, sea cucumbers, sea zephyrs, sharp-nosed puffers, and loggerhead turtles. ”
– Frommer's
Lonely Planet "This old-fashioned museum, housed (in classic Funchal fashion) in a surplus palace, has an ageing aquarium on the ground floor, and stuffed local fauna, including many sea creatures, upstairs" Full review
Fodor's "Animals found on Madeira and in its seas—including a ferocious-looking collection of stuffed sharks—are on display in the natural history museum." Full review
