Istituted in 1978, the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences is housed in the seventeenth-century building that was 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 core of the museum. The selection of the individual samples displayed is mainly based on aesthetic aspect, particular architecture, color, shape, and arrangement of the crystals.
You can admire splendid Dolomite twins, samples of Manganite, Quartz, Pyrite, a mineralogical microcosm.
The ground floor rooms, furnished by architect Andrea Bruno, like the hold of a nineteenth-century ship or an Ark, house the precious Scientific Collections started from the 1700s.
Among the exhibited 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, the
Information about the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences
Via Giolitti, 36, 10100 Turin
