Istituted 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 of Mineralogy, Petrography, and Geology represents the first permanent exhibition nucleus of the museum. The choice of the individual samples exhibited is mainly based on the aesthetic aspect, the particular architecture, the color, shape, and arrangement of the crystals.
You can admire splendid Dolomite twins, samples of Manganite, Quartz, Pyrite, a mineralogical microcosm.
The rooms on the ground floor, arranged by the architect Andrea Bruno, like the hold of an eighteenth-century ship or an Ark, house the precious Scientific Collections started from 1700.
Among the displayed animals 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 Marsupial Wolf, the
Information about the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences
Via Giolitti, 36, 10100 Turin
