Thirteen years later, the Institute gained prestige and importance and its magnifying was emergent. It was inaugurated then, the Central Building of the Institute, the first one to be constructed to install many laboratories properly.

Today, the Butantã Institute is a center of biomedical research, tied with the State secretary of the Health of São Paulo, responsible for the production of more than 80% of the total of soros and vaccines consumed in Brazil. Its mission is to develop studies and basic research in the area of Biology and Biomedicina, related directly or indirectly, with the public health. One of the visited tourist points more of São Paulo, the Butantã keeps 3 museums (Biological, Historical and Microbiological) and a gorgeous park.

The Biological Museum is characterized for the educative and cultural character, teaching through the animal livings creature that shelter as serpents, spiders and scorpions, lizards and amphibians. Already the Museum of Microbiology is part of the scientific complex of the Butantã Institute and is located in modern building specifically drawn to shelter it. Its original and innovative conception proposal educational becomes it differentiated a scientific museum only e, the first one of the sort in Latin America.

The Historical Museum shows, in turn, historical equipment, panels and documents, as well as temporary expositions of character cultural technician-description and.

Established in 23 of February of 1901, as Serumtherapico Institute, the Butantã shelters one of the biggest collections of serpents of the world, sophisticated laboratories and the most modern center of vaccine production, soros and biofármacos of Latin America.