The Civic Museum of Natural History in Verona, located in the prestigious palazzo Pompei, houses a few scientific sections that deal with the study of minerals and rocks, paleontology and zoology.
The prehistoric and botanical sections have been moved to the Command Headquarters building at the former Austrian Arsenal. Scientific materials gathered by museum researchers as well as by many naturalists over nearly five centuries, are now meticously prepared and catalogued before being studied and conserved in the collections or put on exhibit.
The museum, thus, plays an active and crucial role in scientific research and in publishing essays and popular texts.
Undoubtedly, the museum’s flagship section is the famous Bolca fossils collection which includes specimens of more than 250 species of animals and 200 species of vegetals from the Lessini mountains – at 50 kilometres from Verona – a telling prove of what life on Earth was like 50 million years ago, and how it evolved.
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