Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova

The Museo di storia naturale Giacomo Doria is the municipal museum of natural history of the northern Italian city of Genoa. His collection includes nearly 4 million pieces with an emphasis on animals, especially mammals and animals of the Mediterranean. Accessible to visitors are 23 exhibition halls. The building is located in Via Brigade.

History

The museum dates back to efforts Giacomo Doria, who suggested the City Council of Genoa its establishment, this agreed unanimously on 24 April 1867. His first seat was the town house of the di Negro family in the center of Genoa. Doria was the first museum director and founded the museum's collection, among other things on his travels in Persia (1863 ) and Borneo (1865 ) collected pieces. Then there were the geological and paleontological collection of the Marquis Lorenzo Pareto and the Malacological Collection of Prince Oddone of Savoy. For further trips to Asia, Africa and South America, the collection was so far extended that the construction of a new building, it was decided, which was inaugurated on 17 October 1912. Doria was at this inauguration for health reasons no longer participate, and after his death on September 19, 1913, the City Council decided on 25 November the museum named after him and set up his bust there. The successor Doria as museum director were Raphael Gestro to 1934, Oscar de Beaux until 1947, Carlo Alzona to 1955, Enrico Tortonese to 1976, Lilia Capocaccia Orsini to 1996, Roberto Poggibis 2011 and since then Giuliano Doria.

Exhibition

The exhibition is divided into 23 halls:

Ground floor

  • Atrium entrance and stairs to first floor
  • Paleontological hall with mainly finds from Liguria
  • Room 1: primates
  • Room 2: primates and bats
  • Room 3: predators
  • Room 4: predators, giant slides and insectivores
  • Room 5: carnivores, rodents, lagomorphs, hyraxes, mammoths and manatees
  • Room 6: whales and even-toed ungulate
  • Room 7: whales and even-toed ungulate, including the skeleton of a fin whale
  • Room 8: Artiodactyla
  • Room 9: Diorama of the African Savannah
  • Room 10: Artiodactyla, Perissodactyla, Xenarthra, pangolins, marsupials and monotremes

First floor

  • Ligurian hall with mammals and birds of Liguria
  • Room 11: birds
  • Room 12: birds
  • Room 13: birds
  • Room 14: Reptiles
  • Room 15: reptiles, amphibians and fish
  • Corridor of the sea
  • Room 16: fish and cyclostomes
  • Room 17: invertebrates ( arthropods )
  • Room 18: invertebrates (other)
  • Room 19: The Cell
  • Room 20: Stones and Minerals
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