The Museum of Earth Sciences

Type:

Luoghi della cultura; Ente/Istituzione

Category:

Museums of natural history and natural sciences

The Museum of Earth Sciences Department of Earth and Geoenvironmental Sciences, University of Bari Aldo Moro puts its basis in historical collections acquired by our University in the mid 50s. The collections were preserved until 1985 in the University Building, it was later transferred to the Department of Earth Science and Geoenvironmental at the Palace of Earth Sciences of the University Campus in a special museum for the exhibition. Currently, the Museum of Earth Sciences includes a Geopaleontologic Mineralogical-petrographic sector and as a whole has an area of 1000 square meters.