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Best History Museums in Palermo

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Antonino Salinas Regional Archeological Museum

Museo Archeologico Regionale is housed within a convent belonging to the Cappucin friars. Most of the collection relates to the period of Greek dominance. Among the more interesting exhibits are the famous metope from the temples in Selinunte, a collection of Greek vases and several mosaics from patrician Roman villas. There is also a rather interesting collection of Italian ceramics from the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. The permanent collection was enlarged a few years ago to include a section dedicated to the punic tombs found all over Sicily.

Via Bara All'Olivella 24, Palermo, Italy, 90133
Gemmellaro Geological Museum

Gemmellaro Museum is one of the most important geological and paleontologic institutions of Italy. It is the fruit of the organizing and classifying efforts of Professor P. Calcara and Professor G.G. Gemmellaro during the 19th Century, and nowadays hosts more than 600,000 specimens, the most ancient of them from Sosio Valley dating back 270,000 years. The Olphin Room, on the first floor, has the didactical purpose of explaining the phases of Sicilian geological history, showing representative fossils and rocks. It also features specimens from Ferdinandea, a volcanic island which emerges and sinks from erosion every once in a while, the last recorded incidence being between 1831 and 1832. Upstairs the Room of Man hosts the skeleton of Thea, the most ancient Sicilian woman ever found, whose face was reconstructed using advanced technology. The Crystal Room shows beautiful specimens of minerals like sulphur, gypsum and celestine, which testify to the Mediterranean Sea’s closing during the Messinian age and the resulting evaporation of the water. A gypsum crystal still remains preserved, holding inside of it a drop of that ancient water. The museum also features the skeletons of Sicilian miniature elephants and other prehistoric animals that lived on the island.

Corso Tukory 131, Palermo, Italy, 90134
Doderlein Museum of Zoology

Established in 1862 by Professor P. Doderlein, the Museo di Zoologia, which sits next to the Botanical Gardens, hosts thousands of specimens. Whether they are stuffed or preserved in formalin, the main part of them belonging to the original collection, they attest to the 19th Century interest in Natural Science. The animals are displayed in the restored, old wooden showcases, which add a touch of charm to a permanent exhibition of great didactical, historical and scientific value. Doderlein Museum excites children and fascinates grown-ups as they discover the Sicilian fauna as it was in the 19th Century, before pollution would destroy many of their habitats. Big sturgeons fished in Palermo’s Oreto river and giant sea breams, eels and congers testify that the Mediterranean is no longer the same. Among exitinct species that the museum features, there are specimens of the Sicilian Wolf and the Griffon Vulture, which was recently re-introduced into Sicily.

Via Archirafi 16, Palermo, Italy, 90123
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