The museum is located at the National Institute of Beekeeping and documents the historical and technical evolution of this type of farming. Tools and work instruments collected over time, also thanks to donations, are on display. Among the items are numerous models of beehives used in different areas of Italy during the 19th and 20th centuries; tools used in beekeeping operations and honey production; wooden models of typical apiaries from various rural areas of Italy; anatomical models of the bee’s body and some anatomical plates previously used in teaching Beekeeping at the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Bologna.
It is worth noting, for being one of the very first used in beekeeping, the German honey extractor specimen (Rauschenfels model) dating back to the mid-1800s.
