Fishing Museum

INTERESTING MUSEUM

This museum is housed in a quite impressive building, in the past apparently part of the port fortification defences, and contains a large number of interesting exhibits, including the skeleton of a w...

First a naval college now a fisheries museum.

The fishing museum stands almost on top of the first fort built in Santos, fort Augusto in 1714. Later it became a maritime mariner college, a natural museum and now a fishing museum. It used to be ...

Pesca

The museo da Pesca is located in a nice large building. Looks colonial to me. Contents are comparable to the nearby museo do mar. With stuffed fish, fish fossils. Highlight is the huge manta ray at th...

Good for buying fresh fish

Good for buying fresh fish, there is a market next to the museum with fresh fish, near the balsa to the city of guaruja.

Fascinating!

I discovered many different marine species at this museum. This included new species that were found by the local fishermen only at the shores of Santos who had donated the discoveries to educate the ...