Geologiacal and Paleontological Museum
Geologiacal and Paleontological Museum
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Via Giorgio La Pira, 4, 50121 Firenze, Italia
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Although it was founded in the eighteenth century as part of the Imperial Regio Museo di Fisica e Storia Naturale (Imperial Royal Museum of Physics and Natural History) the beginnings of the collection date from the early nineteenth century. The collection was brought to its current home around 1920 from the Specola where other naturalistic collections were also displayed. It is truly a unique museum with over 300 thousand items. The first floor collection of plants, rocks and invertebrates is open only to scholars. The section open to the public is located on the ground floor. The educational exhibition begins with an illustration of certain aspects of geology and paleontology (the origins of fossils, of rocks, movements of the earth’s crust, etc.) and continues with many interesting collections of vertebrates (fossilized skeletons from Italy and beyond Europe), plants and invertebrates starting from the Quaternary. There is an interesting section dedicated to Equidae, tracing the evolution of the horse. A recent acquisition is a life-size reconstruction of a Ceratosaurus and a model of a Tyrannosaurus skull.
museums
Via Giorgio La Pira, 4, 50121 Firenze, Italia
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Although it was founded in the eighteenth century as part of the Imperial Regio Museo di Fisica e Storia Naturale (Imperial Royal Museum of Physics and Natural History) the beginnings of the collection date from the early nineteenth century. The collection was brought to its current home around 1920 from the Specola where other naturalistic collections were also displayed. It is truly a unique museum with over 300 thousand items. The first floor collection of plants, rocks and invertebrates is open only to scholars. The section open to the public is located on the ground floor. The educational exhibition begins with an illustration of certain aspects of geology and paleontology (the origins of fossils, of rocks, movements of the earth’s crust, etc.) and continues with many interesting collections of vertebrates (fossilized skeletons from Italy and beyond Europe), plants and invertebrates starting from the Quaternary. There is an interesting section dedicated to Equidae, tracing the evolution of the horse. A recent acquisition is a life-size reconstruction of a Ceratosaurus and a model of a Tyrannosaurus skull.