Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art “Albino Luciani”, Vittorio Veneto

The Museum is arranged in eight rooms: Zoology, Botany – Fungi, Mineralogy Crystallography, Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks, Sedimentary Rocks, Geological Eras, Fossilization, Geomorphology of the territory.

The first records of the presence of a Physics cabinet with an attached collection of “petrified” shells in the Seminary date back to the first half of the 19th century. The material, which suffered serious deterioration in the second half of the 19th century, was reorganized and enriched by Mons. Bianchini (1874-1938), to whose technical skill are attributed: the plaster models of fungi, the anatomical plates of Zoology and Botany, and the prehistoric animals exhibited in the museum.

To don Antonio De Nardi (1928-1994), a respected science teacher and passionate researcher, is owed the creation of this Natural Science Museum where the pre-existing naturalistic material, the collections of rocks and fossils of don Antonio himself, and those of other Vittorio Veneto residents who entrusted their precious finds to him find a fitting place.

Don Antonio also created explanatory panels and diagrams that make the museum easily accessible both to students, who find illustrated educational paths, and to a wider public eager to learn about significant geological collections of the Venetian land.