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 undergone serious deterioration, was reorganized and enriched by Mons. Bianchini (1874-1938), to whose technical skill are due: the plaster models of fungi, the anatomical tables of Zoology and Botany, and the prehistoric animals exhibited in the museum.
To Don Antonio De Nardi, (1928-1994) esteemed Science teacher and passionate researcher, is owed the creation of this Museum of Natural Sciences in which the pre-existing naturalistic material, the collections of rocks and fossils of Don Antonio himself and those of other people from Vittorio Veneto who entrusted him with their precious finds, find suitable accommodation.
Don Antonio is also responsible for the creation of explanatory panels and schemes that make the museum easily usable both for students, who find the educational paths illustrated there, and for a broader audience eager to learn about significant geological collections of the Venetian land.
Information on the Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art “Albino Luciani”
Largo del Seminario, 2
31029 Vittorio Veneto (Treviso)
043 8948411
by appointment
Source: MIBACT
