The Monte Palace Madeira Garden has been open to the public since 1991. It occupies an area of 70,000 square meters and houses a huge collection of exotic plants from all over the world, along with swans, ducks and koi fish. The Monte Palace Museum of the park provides an ideal exhibition space consisting of: three floors; Two of them are dedicated to sculptures and the third houses a unique mineral collection collected from the four corners of the world.