Knowledge Centre
Here, we showcase some of the most remarkable treasures in the University of Coimbra’s valuable collections.
Invoice from J. Leroy-Waigel, Pépiniériste et Fleuriste (Angers), for plants sold to the Botanical Garden
A manuscript that escaped the fire!
Cane
Cycas thouarsii
HIPPOPOTAMUS skull
Narcissus willkommii
Blue-and-yellow Macaw
Leopard
The University represented as “Alma Mater”
Iberian stag beetle
Diaphananthe thomensis
List of the University’s Carriers
Nautilus
Indo-Portuguese Bookbinding
Drosophyllum lusitanicum
The Revolutionary Map
The Plan That Changed Everything
Saint Vincent Panels according to António
Fire and Liberation
Traces of an Unlikely Congress
Xylotheque from São Tomé and Príncipe
Bill of Lading
Image of a medieval lecture
Missionary
A vandalised photo
The Gunpowder Basin
Headrest
Bloodletting Certificate
The rarest Portuguese supralibros
Staff
Pyrite
Drawing of a female figure by the 2nd Baron of Resende
Early photography albums of Coimbra
Coco de Mer
Andradite
Possible Portrait of Dom Pedro de Cristo
Compound Microscope
Little Basket of Flowers
Vandelli jar
Photo collection from the Academic Crisis
Iron Achondrite Meteorite Slice
Petition submitted by José Maria de Eça de Queirós to be admitted to the Logic exam
Screenprint by Costa Pinheiro
Zoology
Notes from the Beadle of the Faculty of Medicine (1862–1863)
Bag
Almost Forgotten Image of the "Passarola"
Welwitschia mirabilis
Desenho a carvão de Albertina Falker
O primeiro livro em português impresso na América
Manueline-style Binding
Talismã qiánjiàn, 钱剑
Bíblia dita das 48 linhas
Panorâmica de Coimbra
Máscara
Trompa
Insígnia da Universidade de Coimbra
O diário italiano da viagem de Fernão de Magalhães
Desenho de Alfredo Cândido
Encadernação mudéjar
Prelo Haas-Galinha
Cesto de adivinhação
Sala do Exame Privado
Diploma de D. Dinis de fundação da Universidade
Estátuas da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra
Pêndula de compensação de Berthoud
Super-libros de Colbert
Gravura da Sapiência em diplomas da Universidade
Octante
Um livro xilográfico chinês
O mais antigo documento do acervo arquivístico
Preguiça-de-três-dedos
“Histórias Arábias” e outras traduções das “1001 noites”
Phemba
Iberian Lynx
Tightrope Walker
Model of Rafflesia arnoldii
Nkisi Nkondi
San Cùn Jin Lián Shoes (三寸金莲)
Commemorative Plaque