Interni antichi Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale

HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM

«scholars find here pasture of erudition and culture, and visitors conceive a better idea of the civilization of Friuli»

 
These were the words of abbot Jacopo Pirona (1789-1870) on the aims of the Friulano Museum, inaugurated on 13 May 1866. At that time, however, the Museum was only a hypothesis, since it had only three rooms together with the Library, where the objects remained mostly stored.
Later it was his nephew Giulio Andrea Pirona (1822-1895) who presented the project of the natural sciences section of the Museum in front of the Commissioner of King Quentin Sella, on 26 August 1866. Pirona became conservative in 1871, after his uncle left office.

- FOUNDING FATHERS OF THE MFSN

The historical collections that gave life to the Friulian Museum of Natural History were enriched by what came from the city’s schools and the cabinets of the Technical Institute 'A. Zanon', but the patrimony of scientific knowledge that constitutes an essential foundation of this Museum is due to the field efforts of some scholars, already active at the end of the eighteenth century, such as Giuseppe Carlo Cernazai and Girolamo Venerio, and later, to those who were linked to the Technical Institute 'A. Zanon' and the Italian Geographical School, we refer in particular to Ardito Desio, Giovan Battista De Gasperi, Lodovico di Caporiacco, Egidio Feruglio, Michele Gortani, Giovanni and Olinto Marinelli, Camillo Marinoni, Francesco Musoni, Giulio Andrea Pirona, Torquato Taramelli, Achille Tellini, Annibale Tommasi and Graziano Vallon.

Giulio Andrea Pirona, one of the founding fathers of the museum

- HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS

A historical liquid preparation of the Cnidarian Alcyonium palmatum
A historical liquid preparation of the ontogenetic series of the termite Macrotermes gilvus
A pre-Linnean herbarium from the 18th century preserved in a museum
Grafometer: a topographic instrument for calculating distances from the Collection of Girolamo Venerio
Leyden jar for electricity experiments from the Collection of Girolamo Venerio
Leyden jar for electricity experiments from the Girolamo Venerio Collection
Historical ornithological plate illustrated by Graziano Vallon
Historical preparation of the head of the elephant killed by Italo Balbo in Kenya and preserved in the museum

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