Corporate Body

Museu do Eucalipto (1916 - )

From
1916
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Functions
Eucalypt display centre, Forest or Timber Industries and Forest Science
Alternative Names
  • Floresta Estadual Edmundo Navarro de Andrade (FEENA) (Also known as)
Location
Navarro de Andrade State Forest and Park, Brazil

Summary

In 1916, Navarro de Andrade commenced work on the Museu do Eucalipto at Rio Claro in the Sao Paulo area. The aim for this museum was to store and display artefacts and wood samples and become a knowledge centre on eucalypts.

It is now known as the Floresta Estadual Edmundo Navarro de Andrade (FEENA) and under the ownership of the Sao Paulo Institute of Forestry.

Skip to

Related People

  • Andrade, Edmundo Navarro de (1881 - 1941)

    The garden was established in 1909. De Andrade took up residence in the garden and established a eucalyptus research centre, named the Museu do Eucalipto, in 1916.

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Books

  • Wrigley, J.; and Fagg, M., Eucalypts: a Celebration (Crows Nest Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2010), 344 pp. Details

Resources

See also

Christine Moje

Created: 5 July 2012, Last modified: 26 February 2013

EOAS ID: biogs/P005204b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by the Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 February (Kooyang - Gariwerd calendar)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#kooyang
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005204b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260