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Geology and Paleontology Museum
Via la Pira, 4 50121 Florence Italy Phone: +39 055 2757536About
This is the most important museum of its kind in Italy and includes more than 270,000 examples of animal and vegetable fossils, fossil imprints and rock specimens.
Medici interests again were responsible for its founding, notably in the person of the Grand Duke Ferdinand II.
It was he who in the seventeenth century spurred on the collecting of the remains of vertebrates in the Monte Amiata area and other Tuscan neighbourhoods of geological interest.
