Mineral/Geology Museums in Italy
| Photo | Museum Name | Location | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
Apulia | |||
| Museum of Earth Sciences Museo di Scienze della Terra | Bari, Apulia | The museum includes a geopaleontologic section and a mineralogical-petrographic section. | |
Emilia-Romagna | |||
| Collezione di Mineralogia "Museo Luigi Bombicci" | Bologna, Emilia-Romagna | Exhibits are arranged in the following manner: systematic mineralogical collection, Italian regional collection, mineralogical and petrographic collection of the Bologna area, systematic petrographic collection, architect Sarti collection of ancient and modern dimension stones, meteorites, ambers. Significant minor ... | |
Lazio | |||
| Museo Civico Archeologico-Naturalistico "Adolfo Klitsche de La Grange" | Allumiere, Lazio | Archaeological and naturalistic museum dedicated to the area of Allumiere and Tolfa Mountains. It includes a paleontological and a geo-mining section, the latter with exhibition of local mineral specimens (with particular emphasis on the intensively mined deposits of the surrounding area). | |
| Museo di Mineralogia, Universita "La Sapienza" | Rome, Lazio | ||
Liguria | |||
| Archaeological Mining Museum of Masso-Castiglione Chiavarese (MuCast) | Masso, Liguria | Illustrating about 5000 years of human work history in the Val Petronio area; the XX Settembre gallery, the only mine that can be visited in Liguria with its underground path; the prehistoric excavation site that takes the visitor back to the Copper Age, in 3500 BC | |
Lombardy | |||
| Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano | Milan, Lombardy | ||
| Museo Mineralogico Naturalistico di Bormio | Bormio, Lombardy | ||
Metropolitan City of Bari | |||
| Museum of Earth Sciences Museo di Scienze della Terra | Bari, Metropolitan City of Bari | ||
Piemonte | |||
| Museo di Storia Naturale Valsalice | Torino, Piemonte | ||
| Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali (Permanently closed) MRSN | Turin, Piemonte | MRSN contains all the historical collections of University of Turin, Geology Department since the end of XVIII century. Many minerals and fossils were bought during past decades. Today the Museum is closed for maintenance works till 2018. | |
Sicily | |||
| Museo Mineralogico e della Zolfara "Sebastiano Mottura" | Caltanissetta, Sicily | It includes the mineral and rock collection of the Caltanissetta mining school (founded by Sebastiano Mottura in 1862). In addition to good mineral specimens from Sicily and worldwide localities, intersting fossils, rocks, and mine equipment models are on display. | |
South Tyrol | |||
| Bergbau Welt Ridnaun Schneeberg | Ridanna, South Tyrol | ||
| Mineralienmuseum Teis | Teis, South Tyrol | ||
| Museo Mineralogico Monzoni | Vigo di Fassa, South Tyrol | ||
| Museum Kirchler | St.Johann, South Tyrol | ||
| Naturmuseum Südtirol - Museo di Scienze Naturali | Bozen / Bolzano, South Tyrol | ||
Tuscany | |||
| Museo Mineralogia e Litologia di Firenze | Florence, Tuscany | ||
| Natural History Museum of the University of Pisa Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università di Pisa | Calci, Tuscany | Founed at the end of the XVI century as a "Gallery" attached to the Pisa Garden of Simples (the present Botanic Garden), the Museum enriched its collections during the centuries. Since the end of the 1970s the Museum is hosted in the Charterhouse of Calci. The Museums host mineralogical, paleontological and ... | |
Veneto | |||
| Museo di Archeologia e Scienze Naturali "G. Zannato" | Montecchio Maggiore-Alte Ceccato, Veneto | ||
| Museo di Mineralogia dell Museum of Mineralogy of the University of Padova | Padova, Veneto | ||
| Museo di Storia Naturale di Venezia | Venice, Veneto | The Museum is housed in the Fontego dei Turchi (or Fondaco dei Turchi), originally built as a palazzo for the Pesaro family in the 13th century, on the Grand Canal. The Earth Science Section includes numerous collections of minerals, rocks, and fossils. The largest historical collection is the mineral collection of ... | |
