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- MUSEUM

The Friulian Museum of Natural History is one of the elements that make up the Civic Museums of Udine, founded in 1866 under the name of "Friulian Museum" by the scholar Jacopo Pirona.

The museum:
- is a permanent institution serving the community
- carries out scientific heritage conservation activities
- carries out research mainly in the region
- interprets, communicates and exposes its wealth of materials and knowledge.

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Some ceramic vessels from the caves of the Natisone Valleys, Two male specimens of the stag beetle (Lucanus cervus), A specimen of the Lady's Slipper Orchid (Cypripedium calceolus), Megalancosaurus preonensis, a Triassic reptile found in Val Preon, Specimen of Chrysocolla, a mineral of the silicate family, from Comeglians

- METEOROLOGY IN THE MUSEUM

The meteorological station in the museum allows to sample:
- temperature
- humidity
- rainfall
- wind (direction, intensity)
- evapotranspiration
- radiation
- UV rays

All data collected, together with some processing and simulation are available onthis page. The instrumentation used is the basis on which specific teaching laboratories and projects for schools on meteorology and climate are carried out.

The weather station located in the museum's garden

22.710
Kw/h

ANNUAL
PRODUCTION

1892.5
Kw/h

MONTHLY
AVERAGE

62
Kw/h

PRODUCED
DAILY

- THE ENERGY OF THE MUSEUM

The buildings of the Museum are equipped with photovoltaic systems and are part of a local energy community: that is, they self-produce and consume collective energy together with three other municipal buildings. In this way energy autonomy is achieved and excess production is transferred to others.

- THE BEES OF THE MUSEUM

The museum houses a colony of honey bees (Apis mellifera) in a hive monitored through webcams. The social organization of these bees usually provides for a queen, the only fertile female, a few tens of thousands of workers and, during the reproductive period, a few hundred males (drones). From the biological point of view, the colony represents a superorganism, that is a single entity composed of thousands of closely interdependent individuals. By pollinating many plants, domestic bees do a great deal of work for overall biodiversity. You can monitor the activity of the bees in our hive through the three dedicated webcams.
Worker bees of the domestic honeybee on a frame of the educational hive located in the museum's garden

WHERE DO BEES GO?

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Dove vanno le api
Entrance of the Friulian Museum of Natural History, in Via Sabbadini in Udine

- NEWSLETTER

Stay updated on all the events and initiatives of the Friulian Museum of Natural History:
Facciata Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale

Via Cecilia Gradenigo Sabbadini
22-32, 33100 Udine
How to reach the museum

0432 1273211
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