Formally established by the end of 2015 as the outcome of the merger between the Museum of Natural History of the U.Porto and the Science Museum of the U.Porto – Faculty of Sciences, the Natural History and Science Museum of the University of Porto (MHNC-UP) has as its main mission the construction and dissemination of knowledge about evolution, diversity and the confluence between the natural and the cultural worlds. Accordingly, the MHNC-UP is committed to preserve, promote, study and raise awareness about a broad heritage linked to the natural, exact and human sciences, built up through education and research-related activities carried out by U.Porto throughout more than two centuries.