Metais Fortes: Divulgação do museu

Museu das Minas e do Metal, also known as MMM, is a Brazilian museum located in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. It’s a good, beauty and interesting place to visit, because has amazing rooms and all of them has name and description in English, so it’s prepared for all kind of tourists who knows a bit of the world language. The museum uses technology to show the universe of rocks, the processes of transformation of minerals and their importance to human life and social development, economic and cultural. It’s divided into two parts: one for the mines and one for the metals. In this video you can do a virtual tour:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjBERCxHnc8

Mines Part

Mines part presents seven rooms:

· Land of Stars (Chão de Estrelas): It’s an upside down planetarium which has telescopes point towards the ground magnifying the minerals

· Mirages (Miragens):This room uses a game of mirrors and reflections, for the minerals in exhibition seem to be at hand’s reach

· Map of Mines (Mapa das Minas)

· In the Room of Mines (Na Sala das Minas)

· Mineral Inventory (Inventório Mineral): Presents over than 450 samples, including selected minerals, gems and meteorites, divided into 63 showcases, which 20 of them show curiosities and physical properties of minerals through videos and audios.

· Environment (Meio Ambiente): Shows through holograms the consumption of minerals and natural resources of a mine.

Metals Part

Metals part presents nine rooms:

·Atoms Table (Mesa dos Átomos): Presents an interactive periodic table which the visitors can manipulate and combine the elements

· Periodic Table (Tabela Periótica)

· Alloys and Compounds (Ligas e Compostos)

· Windows to the World (Janelas Para o Mundo): Shows through videos the human use of metals in arts, transport, telecommunications, wars, cities, robotics and others.

· Sharp Tongue (Língua Afiada)

· Vile Metal (Vil Metal): This room enables the comparison of metals with others products at different epochs

· Logistics (Logística): Through an interactive model, this room presents the logistics operations of a mine, from extraction to marketing.

· Magic Mirror (Espelho Mágico): As the name implies, it’s a mirror which the visitors are able to adorn herself with electronics jewels of various antique civilizations.