 
Pipiripau Nativity Crèche
Place: UFMG Museum of Natural History and Botanic
Garden
Rua Gustavo da Silveira, 1035 - Santa Inês
Contact: Simone or Sônia, phone 3461-7516
Visit hours: Monday through Thursday, from 8 to 11:30
a.m. and from 1 to 4 p.m. (max. 50 adults or 80 children)
Fee: R$ 1,00. Children under 5 and persons over 65 are
exempt.
The Pipiripau Nativity Crèche, created by the artisan Raimundo
Machado Azevedo in 1906, was donated to UFMG in 1976 and inscribed on
the National Heritage in 1984. The Nativity Crèche is made up
of movable scenes that narrate the birth, life, death, and resurrection
of Christ, with 580 movable pieces, and 45 scenes. The mechanism is
turned on on Saturdays and Sundays.
UFMG Museum of Natural
History and Botanic Garden
Place: Rua Gustavo
da Silveira, 1035 - Santa Inês
Contact: Simone or Sônia, phone 3461-5805 - fax
3482-9723 - e-mail: mhncenex@reitoria.ufmg.br
Visit hours: Monday through Thursday, from 8 a.m. to
4 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (max. 50 adults
or 80 children)
Fee: R$ 2,00. Children under 5 and persons over 65
are exempt.
With 600,000 sq. m. of green area, the MHN-JB is a privileged ecological
space that enables visitors to experience nature in a rich, multidisciplinary
way. For 30 years, the mission of the MHN-JB has been to do research,
to educate, and to meet the community’s demand for service. It
covers the areas of Anthropology, Archeology, Environmental Education,
Natural History, Mineralogy, and Paleontology. It has an Ecological
Amphitheater, a Free Art Atelier, a Greenhouse, and an Interactive Room.
One of its traditional exhibitions is the Pipiripau Nativity Crèche.
The Serra da Piedade
Astronomical Observatory
Place: Atop the Serra do Santuário de
Nossa Senhora da Piedade (Caeté crossroad).
Distance from downtown Belo Horizonte: 50 km.
Hours: from Tuesday to Friday – schools and other
interested groups; appointments: phone 3409-5679, between 9 and 10:30
a.m. with Flávio Alexandre or Elizabete Azevedo; every first
Saturday: open to the general public, from 5 to 11 p.m.
Telescopic and naked eye observations guided by UFMG students and teachers;
commented projections of astronomical images; constellation identification;
use of sky maps, telescopes, optical systems and mountings, astronomical
coordinates, reduction of positional observations, astronomical measurements,
the use of CCD detectors. Classes with multimedia: the structure of
the universe; the solar system; asteroids, comets, and shooting stars;
the sky that we see; Hubble and the American space program; extraterrestrial
life.
Center for Medicine Memory
Place: School of Medicine – 2nd floor
- Av. Alfredo Balena, 190 - Santa Efigênia
Appointments: Leila, phone 3409-9672
The collection has bibliographic and photographic material, instruments,
sculptures, paintings, drawings, films, medical equipment, old medical
books from Brazil and abroad, furniture from the old School of Medicine.
Its mission is to help students, teachers, and researchers to understand
the progress of the medical science. It also has personal objects that
belonged to earlier professionals alongside with a collection of objects
that belonged to celebrities such as Pedro Nava, Guimarães Rosa,
Vital Brasil, Carlos Chagas, Juscelino Kubitschek, and Ivo Pitangui,
among others. The center does research, promotes events, and offers
courses; it helps doctors, teachers, students, and other health professionals,
and is open to the public. It offers a course on the History of Medicine
every Friday at 11 a.m.
Ecological Station
Place: Pampulha Campus
Appointments: Celso or Acácia, phones 3409-2295
or 3409-2296.
Hours: Guided tours from Monday to Thursday, from 8
to 11:30 a.m. and from 2 to 5 p.m. Group size is of 45 to 65 per visit,
for schools, teachers, and staff. Individual visits must be negotiated
by phone and scheduled.
Covering 102 hectares, the Ecological Station is characterized by fauna
and flora diversity. Nine mammal species, 220 bird species, and a large
number of reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates have been identified.
The vegetation is rich in native and exotic plants. Formerly Fazenda
Dalva, then Dom Orione Orphanage, the station still keeps remnants of
those times. Different research and extension projects are developed
there.
Department of Mathematics
Place: Institute of Exact Sciences (ICEX) -
Av. Antônio Carlos, 6627 – Pampulha Campus.
Appointments for guided tours: Maria Laura or Grey
Ercole, phone 3409-5970.
Guided tours for students and teachers of mathematics from secondary
schools for talks, workshops, and video shows related to the teaching
of mathematics. It aims to bring together teaching licensees and UFMG
teachers, the Department of Mathematics, and the Vocational School to
know mathematics from a more advanced position and to discuss problems
of secondary teaching.
Museum of Morphological Sciences
Place: building N2, room 69, Institute of Biological
Sciences (ICB) – Av. Antônio Carlos, 6627 – Pampulha
Campus.
Hours: February to December, Monday to Thursday, 8
to 12 a.m. and 2 to 5 p.m.; Friday – 8 to 12 a.m. Guided
tours: Sandra and Goretti, Monday to Thursday, 8 to 12 a.m.
and 2 to 5 p.m. and Friday, 8 to 12 a.m.; smaller groups do not need
to make appointments, phone 3409-2776
The Museum has plaster and resin models, embryos and fetuses in different
stages of development, human body parts, cell and tissue photomicrographies,
in addition to special exhibitions such as comparative anatomy, anatomical
and histological techniques, histotechnological evolution, etc.
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