Centro Musei Scienze Naturali

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  • Address
    Via Mezzocannone 8, Spaccanapoli
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  • Phone
    253 51 60
  • Website
  • Transport
    bus: R2 to Corso Umberto I
  • Mon & Thu 09:00 - 13:30 & 15:00 - 17:00 , Tue & Fri 09:00 - 13:30 , Sat & Sun 09:00 - 13:00

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Lonely Planet review

Housed at the university, this fascinating natural science centre features four museums. The Museo della Mineralogia, one of Italy's most important, features some 30,000 minerals, meteorites and quartz crystals collected from as far afield as Madagascar.

A hit with kids is the Museo della Zoologia, with its colourful collection of butterflies, birds and creepy insects.

Across the courtyard, the Museo della Antropologia boasts an eclectic collection of prehistoric relics including a grinning Palaeolithic skeleton from Puglia and a cute Bolivian mummy. Dinosaur bones await at the nearby Museo di Paleontologia.