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[Matteo_Chinellato]

I start here a little photo, and video, tour to this Museum where I am lucky to work with photography. Sorry for the not good quality photos, but its old photos. The museum are born in the 1838 born when the two naturalist De Cristoforis and Jan donated their collections to the city of Milan. Today is the largest museum of natural history of Italy. In 1943 the museum was almost completely destroyed by bombing and suffered considerable damage to many collections. Thanks to the enthusiasm of many, the Museum was rebuilt in 1952 and was re-opened to the public. The 23 rooms of the museum has over 5000 square meters of space, where the themes of relationships between organisms and the environment, the evolutionary history of life and wealth of natural forms are developed with great care. Here I show the mineralogical section, and only few other photos of the other collections.

[arturo shaw]

Well... pictures from my favorite minerals photographer couldn't be bad... and are not bad at all. :-)

Please post more if you have them, I am planning to pay a visit to the museum this year (may-june).

Thank you

Arturo

[Jordi Fabre]

Matteo,

Is a triple pleasure read your posts. The first pleasure is by yourself ;-), the second pleasure is for the quality of your photos and the third pleasure is by the topic, as the Milan History Museum is, as you mentioned, the main Museum in Italy together with the Giazzotto Collection ( http://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/viewtopic.php?t=762 ) and with a lot of new stuff displayed, due the indefatigable task of Dr. Federico Pezzotta

Please more Matteo, all of us we love your wonderful photos!

[Matteo_Chinellato]

Yes I have other photos, but in this month I have to return several times in museum for take new photos for a article.

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Near the Museum its present one of the oldest italian astronomical planetary, the Hoepli Planetary, and at few meters from the Museum you find the famous Duomo of Milan and many other important monuments

[Matteo_Chinellato]

For who its interested in the meteorites, the museum have a collection of over 300 specimens but unfortunately not exposed, seen I am the " curator " of the collection - I have give many pieces for increase the collection - I put here some photos of the pieces present

[Matteo_Chinellato]

Here I show the last gold specimens acquired from the Museum from the famous italian localitty of Brusson in Aosta Valley

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And to finish some video of the museum:

http://www.youtube.com/user/MatteoTornado/search?query=museo+milano
(link normalized by FMF)

[Jordi Fabre]

To complete the stupendous reportage of Matteo I suggest too a visit to this topic in the Spanish Forum -> http://www.foro-minerales.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3785 that I believe it adds some details to the fine work of Matteo.

Is on Spanish language but with a lot of images...

[Tobi]

One word: WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Matt_Zukowski]

Thank you very much for posting these pictures.