Established in 1978, the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences is housed in the seventeenth-century building that was once the seat of the San Giovanni Battista Hospital.
The permanent exhibition “Jewels in the Fortress” with the section on Mineralogy, Petrography, and Geology represents the museum’s first permanent exhibition core. The selection of individual displayed samples is mainly based on their aesthetic aspect, particular architecture, color, shape, and crystal arrangement.
You can admire splendid dolomite twins, samples of manganite, quartz, pyrite, a mineralogical microcosm.
The ground floor rooms, designed by architect Andrea Bruno, like the hold of a nineteenth-century ship or an Ark, house the specimens of the precious Scientific Collections started in the 1700s.
Among the exhibited animals, there is the elephant Fritz, who lived 25 years in Stupinigi, the American bison and those belonging to extinct species, of exceptional scientific value, such as the Great Auk, the Thylacine, the
Information about the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences
Via Giolitti, 36, 10100 Turin
