Museu Entomológico Fritz Plaumann


The Museu Entomológico Fritz Plaumann is an entomological museum located in Seara, Santa Catarina, Brazil. The museum contains the collections of famed entomologist Fritz Plaumann and is kept by an agreement between the municipal government of Seara, where the entomologist lived, and the Santa Catarina State University. It is a relatively small collection, with about 80,000 individuals from 17,000 species, most of them collected by Plaumann himself around the Upper Uruguai river region. The biggest entomological collections in Brazil are the ones from Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, Museu de Zoologia de São Paulo and Universidade Federal do Paraná.