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 news of the presence in the Seminary of a Physics cabinet with an attached collection of “petrified” shells dates back to the first half of the 19th century. The material, which in the second half of the 19th century had suffered serious deterioration, was reorganized and enriched by Mons. Bianchini (1874-1938) to whose technical skill are owed: 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), an esteemed Science teacher and passionate researcher, is owed the creation of this Natural Sciences Museum in which find a fitting arrangement: the pre-existing naturalistic material, the collections of rocks and fossils of Don Antonio himself and those of other Vittorio Veneto citizens who entrusted him with their precious finds.
To Don Antonio is also owed the creation of explanatory panels and diagrams that make the museum easily accessible both to students, who find illustrated educational paths, and to a wider audience eager to learn about significant geological collections of the Venetian land.
Information about the Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art “Albino Luciani”
Largo del Seminario, 2
31029 Vittorio Veneto (Treviso)
043 8948411
by appointment
Source: MIBACT
