COLLECTIONS OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

In this section you will find evidences of human works aimed at understanding the world through instruments (collection of devices in the Physic cabinet) or at acting on human beings themselves to ease their pains (collection of surgery tools) or at checking and tracking the weather...

THE COLLECTIONS DEVOTED TO EARTH SCIENCES

Earth. This section includes the collections and the tools, dated from 17th to 19th centuries, concerning the activities linked to the development of those sciences focused on the study of the Earth, namely Geography, Mineralogy, Geology, Paleontology…. As for geography, it was conceived as ...

NATURALIST COLLECTIONS


As for the naturalistic collections put together in Mantova between the 18th and 19th centuries, the zoological ones held in the Junior High School Virgilio and in the d’Arco Palace play a significant role. For sure, among all human beings, animals have always been particularly interesting...