The Physics Museum is located at Largo Marqu�s de Pombal in a building constructed c.1773-1777 in the place were it was before the ColŽgio de Jesus. Nowadays this Museum houses an unrivalled collection of scientific and didactic instruments from the 18th and 19th centuries. The patrimony consists exclusively of instruments used in the Physics Cabinet of the University of Coimbra since its origin in 1772.

Thanks to its unique characteristics, this collection of instruments is among the most notable and rare in the world. The instruments from the eighteenth century, which equipped one of the most complete Cabinets for the experimental study of Physics, are nowadays considered true art pieces. The instruments from the nineteenth century, in turn, are well representative of the evolution of Experimental Physics along that century.

Part of these instruments are publicly exhibited in two large rooms, which keep their characteristics since the accommodation of the Physics Cabinet. One of the rooms is a recreation of a Physics Cabinet of the second half of eighteenth century. In the other room, instruments from the nineteenth century, mainly from the first quarter, complete the exhibition.

Opening hours

Monday-Thursday 14h30-17h30

Address

Praça Marquês de Pombal

3004-517 Coimbra

Further information

Departamento de Física

Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

Universidade de Coimbra

3004-516 Coimbra

Tel.: (039)410600 Fax: (039)829158

Internet: http://www.fis.uc.pt/museu/index.htm

Email: museufisica@ci.uc.pt