Museo civico di storia naturale di Venezia

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The Fontego dei Turchi , which has housed the natural history museum for around a century

The Museo civico di storia naturale di Venezia (City Museum of Natural History Venice) is located in the Fontego dei Turchi , one of the oldest city palaces on Venice's Grand Canal . Like the Museo Correr on St. Mark's Square , the museum goes back to the collector Teodoro Correr (Todaro Correr), who made his enormous collection publicly accessible in his own palace in 1836 by will. Later, the natural history and ethnological collection items were separated and given to a separate museum. It has been a purely natural history museum since 1923.

The natural history pieces from Correr's collection, which represented only a fraction of his collection of books, manuscripts, curiosities and art, grew through foundations initially set up by N. Contarini (1849), G. Miani (1862), AP Ninni (ab 1876), G. Zanardini (around 1878) and GB Spinelli (1880). The collection soon went beyond the confined space of the Correr Palace, so that in 1922 the house moved to the Fontego dei Turchi , which had been restored and rebuilt.

In 1920 the collection was finally torn apart when Correr's historical and artistic collection items were moved to the Procuratie on St. Mark's Square, in the Museo Correr , while the natural history and ethnological items remained in the Fontego dei Turchi. The 12th century building has been home to the Natural History Museum since 1923.

Ouranosaurus nigeriensis from Niger

The house has been keeping a Ouranosaurus nigeriensis (MSNVE 3714) from the Gadoufaoua site in Niger since 1975 . Although this remained an attraction in the context of the exhibitions, it was never examined. This has only been done since 2014.

Web links

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Philippe Taquet described the specimen in Niamey as early as 1976: Géologie et Paléontologie du Gisement de Gadoufaoua (Aptien du Niger) . Editions du Center National de la Recherque Scientifique, Paris 1976.
  2. ↑ F. Bertozzo, M. Fabbri, FM Dalla Vecchia: The Venice Specimen of the Dinosaur Ouranosaurus Nigeriensis (Ornithischia, Ornithopoda) , in: M. Delfino, G. Carnevale, M. Pavia (eds.): Abstract Book and Fieldtrip Guide . European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists. XII Annual Meeting Torino-Italy 24-28 June 2014 , Turin 2015, p. 19.

Coordinates: 45 ° 26 ′ 31.2 "  N , 12 ° 19 ′ 43.2"  E