The Museu da Lourinhã in August 2008 Museu da Lourinhã , also known as the Lourinhã Museum , is a museum in the town of Lourinhã , west Portugal . It was founded in 1984 by GEAL - Grupo de Etnologia e Arqueologia da Lourinhã (Lourinhã's Group of Ethnology and Archeology). The president of the Direction Board is Lubélia Gonçalves.
The museum has very complete exhibits of archaeology and ethnology , but the main focus of the museum is the palaeontology hall, which presents casts of famous dinosaurs , as well as fossils recovered from the Late Jurassic Lourinhã Formation . Among these is the famous theropod nest found at the beach of Paimogo, which contains eggs with embryos inside, probably belonging to Lourinhanosaurus Zby atlanticus [ 1] Lourinhanosaurus antunesi Torvosaurus gurneyi
The paleontological research has been conducted by the paleontologists Miguel Telles Antunes , Octávio Mateus and others, in association with the Universidade Nova de Lisboa .
The museum receives about 25.000 visitors every year.
The museum allows people to volunteer for its activities.
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