itaipu ecomuseum

It has a little bit of the history about the city and its beginning, you can also appreciate some local art and take some nice pics simulating you are inside the hydroelectric dam. Worth the visit!

Its only after visiting this museum that we understood how the Itaipu dam worked, and how it affected the surrounding country. We had a really great guide, Renato Furtak.

Had explanation and exhibit of some old machines used. It was interesting for us while we waited for our Special tour to start. It was very empty, we got to chat with people working there. Its a small museum, you'd go if you have time on your side not if you're rushing to see the falls.

Know that Lake buried one of the wonders of the world? The "7 Quedas" lie beneath the waters. Waters that drowned thousands of monkeys, jaguars, trees ... The environmental damage it may be necessary for industrial development but it is a real shame.

This is a small museum. It shows mainly in pictures (does have english text) the history of the area - with particular reference to the construction of the Itaipu Dam and the people of the area (there are some (stuffed) animals near the exit. It takes 20-30 min to walk thru and is reasonably interesting. There is a small zoo about 200m from the exit. I was there on a tour which timed my arrival to spend about 30 min here before the zoo opened. Possibly not worthwhile seeing as a standalone attraction, but worthwhile as part of a dam, museum + zoo circuit.

The museum is not big, but if you like to read everything and take time to see things I think you may reserve one to two hours to visit it.On the museum you'll find things about the original natives, the beginning on the city, and a lot of the construction of the Itaipu plant. There's also a area with the local fauna e flora.If you're in Foz and have some time left I think is worth visiting.

Due to Brazil playing the dam closed early and the only place open was the Ecomuseu so we purchased tickets a walked down the highway about 10 minutes. We were pleasantly surprised...there was a lot to see and a few hands on things. They made learning fun!

After arriving at Itaipu Dam, I realized I had a 1.5 hour wait until the next English tour of the dam, so we decided to check out the ecomuseu.Although we had to walk 10 min down the road (which didn't have sidewalks for part of it), we were pleasantly surprised by the tranquility of the museum grounds! It was a beautiful and quiet spot with butterflies and birds all over.Inside the museum, the displays provided a good background for the tour I was headed to. The museum was small but the staff were SO nice and helpful.A good place to kill time before the tour.

We were the only visitors and there were no guides of something like that.Information about the dam is in English but within 30 minutes you have seen it all...I would not recommand this museum there is not much to see.

This museum is between 1 and 2 kilometers from the bus stop and visitors center for the Itapui dam and there is no transport between the two. This is a long way of saying it is better if you have a car to visit this museum. You buy the tickets at the Itapui dam when you book your dam tour though so this is relevant. The museum is average size, with an average layout and average quality information attached to the exhibits. There are computers which give you full information on the dam in Spanish, Portuguese, and, crucially for us, in English. The software is like Encarta - old skool - but very informative and there are lots of fun facts and statistics for fact fans.The exhibits range from the strange (local art), to the interesting (dam workers leftover items, and taxidermy from animals killed when the dam was created). The museum was conceived and built by the company that built the dam: Itapui Binacional. It feels a little like a company indoctrination when going through this museum, and some of the dams more controversial issues are not mentioned at all (the relocation of the local people and the blackout of 2009, for example). It is worth going to this museum of you have an hour or two to kill before your dam tour. It is not worth doing on its own though, as there is nothing else out there, and it is not worth doing separately to the dam as the museum is an homage to the dam really. Saying that, it was not particularly expensive, and they did have friendly guides who did not follow you around the whole time in the annoying style that can happen elsewhere in Brazil.Best also to phone the Itapui dam ticket office to make sure the museum is open when you want to go.

After a visit to the stunning Itaipu Dam, we bought tickets there for this museum, which is a walk down the highway. Interesting exhibits outside, but most were blocked off. Inside the guides were busy with various school groups, though they did ask us (in Portuguese) if we were doing okay. It's not intuitive how to move from one area to the next. The glass floor of one room let us see the topography of the area, including Iguacu Falls, and that was very cool. Many displays are interactive, but we learned that only by watching the school groups behind us. The price was right. I would recommend it only as part of a trip to the Dam.

This museum sorts of surprised me.. I wasn't expecting much as I visited it since i had plenty of available time between my visit and the night visit, but it really gave me some more info about the region, its history and how important the construction of the Dam was. the entrance is some 700m away from Itaipu main gates and it will take around 1 hour to visit the whole museum if you like reading about the details of the Dam and the region.

you need to buy the entrance ticket at the ITAIPU information center! The place was much more interesting than we had expected. The three different guides we had is the different sections were all very good and knowledgeable. The name does not really give the right impression what the museum is about. You get to know many interesting details about the building of the dam, the hydroelectric plant and the region.

It was cool and interesting. It changes from the classical visits you can do and it was worth the effort. Located on the itaipu Dam.

I went to this place after a very disappointing time at the Dam. This place though more than made up for that. Individual guides and a very personalized tour with lots of discussion. Great information about how the dam impacted the whole area. This really gave me a great overview of the whole region which really helped me understand the falls, the dam and the whole region as I continued into Argentina. If you have extra time when you visit the falls, go here!