The Centro Musei delle Scienze Naturali, University of Naples Federico II, is composed of four Museums: Mineralogy, Zoology, Anthropology and Palaeontology. It holds a rich and heterogeneous heritage which testifies the scientific activity carried out in natural sciences at the Neapolitan University in the last two centuries, a world that was forgotten since the changes in speculative methodologies gradually excluded scientific collections from studies and researches. So, as in many other universities, the naturalistic collections of the University of Naples risked disappearing and the Centro Musei was thus founded, in 1992, just to avoid this waste. It was officially opened to visitors in 1994 [1]. All the museums are located in the historical buildings, built during the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, that hosted the university from the second half of the seventeenth century, when the young and up to date king Ferdinando IV di Borbone and his wife Maria Carolina, Maria Teresa’s daughter, decided to move the University from the Palazzo degli Studi, where it had its seat from 1616. The four museums of the Centro were founded in different years, from 1801 to 1932: the Museum of Mineralogy in 1801, the Museum of Zoology in 1813, the Museum of Anthropology in 1881 and the Museum of Palaeontology in 1932. The first two are still housed in their original sites, with the same historic wooden shelves. It is not easy to deal with those institutions, so different from one another in many respects, and widely spread throughout the area of the University. Overall, the Centro occupies a large area of 2,800 square meters and houses more than 150,000 artefacts with about 35,000 visitors a year. Visitors are mainly pupils attending primary and secondary level schools and university students. 2. Centro Musei delle Scienze Naturali and

History through minerals / Ghiara, MARIA ROSARIA; Petti, Carmela; Toscano, M.. - STAMPA. - (2012), pp. 101-109. (Intervento presentato al convegno XII Universeum Network Meeting tenutosi a Padova nel 26-29 maggio 2012).

History through minerals

GHIARA, MARIA ROSARIA;PETTI, CARMELA;
2012

Abstract

The Centro Musei delle Scienze Naturali, University of Naples Federico II, is composed of four Museums: Mineralogy, Zoology, Anthropology and Palaeontology. It holds a rich and heterogeneous heritage which testifies the scientific activity carried out in natural sciences at the Neapolitan University in the last two centuries, a world that was forgotten since the changes in speculative methodologies gradually excluded scientific collections from studies and researches. So, as in many other universities, the naturalistic collections of the University of Naples risked disappearing and the Centro Musei was thus founded, in 1992, just to avoid this waste. It was officially opened to visitors in 1994 [1]. All the museums are located in the historical buildings, built during the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, that hosted the university from the second half of the seventeenth century, when the young and up to date king Ferdinando IV di Borbone and his wife Maria Carolina, Maria Teresa’s daughter, decided to move the University from the Palazzo degli Studi, where it had its seat from 1616. The four museums of the Centro were founded in different years, from 1801 to 1932: the Museum of Mineralogy in 1801, the Museum of Zoology in 1813, the Museum of Anthropology in 1881 and the Museum of Palaeontology in 1932. The first two are still housed in their original sites, with the same historic wooden shelves. It is not easy to deal with those institutions, so different from one another in many respects, and widely spread throughout the area of the University. Overall, the Centro occupies a large area of 2,800 square meters and houses more than 150,000 artefacts with about 35,000 visitors a year. Visitors are mainly pupils attending primary and secondary level schools and university students. 2. Centro Musei delle Scienze Naturali and
2012
History through minerals / Ghiara, MARIA ROSARIA; Petti, Carmela; Toscano, M.. - STAMPA. - (2012), pp. 101-109. (Intervento presentato al convegno XII Universeum Network Meeting tenutosi a Padova nel 26-29 maggio 2012).
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