Museo di storia naturale Giacomo Doria
The Museo di storia naturale Giacomo Doria is the municipal natural history museum of the northern Italian city of Genoa . Its collection includes nearly 4 million pieces with an emphasis on animals, particularly mammals and animals of the Mediterranean. 23 exhibition halls are accessible to visitors.
history
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The museum goes back to the efforts of Giacomo Doria , who proposed the establishment of the Genoa City Council, which the council unanimously approved on April 24, 1867. The first seat of the museum was the town house of the di Negro family in the center of Genoa. Doria became the first director of the museum and based the museum's fund on, among other things , the pieces he had collected on trips to Persia (1863) and Borneo (1865). Then there was the geological - paleontological collection of the Marquis Lorenzo Pareto and the malacological collection of Prince Oddone of Savoy. During further trips to Asia, Africa and South America, the collection was expanded to such an extent that it was decided to build a new building, which was inaugurated on October 17, 1912. Doria was unable to attend this inauguration for health reasons and after his death on September 19, 1913, the city council decided on November 25 to name the museum after him and to put Doria's bust there. Doria's successors as museum director were Raphael Gestro until 1934, Oscar de Beaux until 1947, Carlo Alzona until 1955, Enrico Tortonese until 1976, Lilia Capocaccia Orsini until 1996, Roberto Poggi until 2011 and since then Giuliano Doria .
exhibition
The exhibition is divided into 23 halls:
ground floor
- Atrium with entrance area and stairs to the first floor
- Paleontological room with mainly finds from Liguria
- Hall 1: primates
- Hall 2: primates and bats
- Room 3: Predators
- Hall 4: predators, giant gliders and insectivores
- Hall 5: Predators, rodents , hares , hyrax , elephants and manatees
- Hall 6: whales and ungulates
- Room 7: whales and ungulates, including the skeleton of a fin whale
- Room 8: Artificial ungulates
- Room 9: Diorama of the African savannah
- Room 10: cloven- toed ungulates , odd-toed ungulates , articulated animals , pangolins , marsupials and monotons
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 round mouths
- Room 17: invertebrates ( arthropods )
- Room 18: Invertebrates (other)
- Hall 19: The cell
- Room 20: stones and minerals
Web links
- Museo di storia naturale Giacomo Doria . In: Musei di Genova.it (Italian)
Footnotes
- ↑ Via Brigata Liguria 9, 16121, Genoa
- ↑ History of the museum at Musei di Genova (Italian) ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Description of the ground floor (Italian) ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Description of the first floor (Italian) ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 44 ° 24 ′ 8.9 ″ N , 8 ° 56 ′ 33.6 ″ E