NATURAL SCIENCE MUSEUM OF BELVI' - Comunità Montana n° 12

The Town of Belvì

BELVÌ - Natural Science Museum

ADDRESS: Via Roma, 17-tel.0784/629467
OPENING TIMES: By appointment
PRICE OF TICKET: On offering
MANAGEMENT: Cultura Association "Amici del Museo"
DATE OF ORIGIN: 1980
NUMBER OF ROOMS: 5 on one floor
TYPES OF ITEMS: mineralogical division, paleontological, fauna, entomologic, erpethological
ORIGIN OF THE ITEMS: Donations by fans and collectors

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Natural Science Museum

The Natural Science Museum, the only one in Sardinia, dates back to 1980 under the initiative of the Cultural Association "Amici del Museo". It includes Paleontologia, Mineralogia, Faunistica, Entomologia, Erpetologia. Many of the objects are rare and precious.

Esemplari di fenicotteri

Study of fauna division. Flamingo specimens

Sezione di entomologia

Some showcases of the entomology division

MUSEUM ROUTE
The exhibition of the items is in five divisions subdivided in five rooms. Unfortunately for lack of space, many precious items are not given their right value.

Palaeontological division.

About 150 fossils from all geological eras of Sardinian origin.

	Sezione Mineralogica. It includes about 500 minerals originating from Sardinian mines, some are very rare.
	Cobalt from Morocco-High Atlantic	Ossidian

Rose of the wilderness

Calcite crystals

Bismuth league

Rosasite on quartz aragonite

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