The collection of Brendel Botanical Models at the Botanical Garden of Naples, Italy

The Botanical Garden of Naples has a collection of papier-mâché models that reproduce plant structures, whole plants, or fungi. They are known as Brendel Models, named after the German Company that built and supplied them to the Botanical Garden in the early nineteenth century. For their state of decay, due to time and continuous use for educational purposes, the models have undergone recovery interventions. Given their historical and artistic interest, and in order to preserve them, the models are no longer used today. In order not to completely lose such a cultural heritage for didactics, a CD-ROM has been created which includes, for each species reproduced by the models, photos in nature of the plants represented and didactic cards re-porting all the useful information for the use of models in computer mode.