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Natural history museum
Sestiere Santa Croce, 1730, 30135 Venezia, Italy Phone: +39 041 275 0206About
Natural history museum,The vast and delicate collection of the Museum comprises more than two million items.There are numerous zoological collections dedicated, for example, to birds, molluscs and insects and the hymenoptera collection is one of the most important in the world.In the field of botany, the most important material is to be found in the ancient herbaria, the algarium and in the mycology collection. There is also a noteworthy group of fish and plant fossils from Bolca, Italys most famous fossil site dating from more than 50 million years ago, the material found here is of both great scientific interest and powerful aesthetic impact.
