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Natural History Museum - Florence University Museum System

Identification
Original name(s)

  • Museo di Storia Naturale - Sistema Museale di Ateneo di Firenze (it - Italian)
Institution Address

Via La Pira 4
50121 Florence
IT
segr-amm@msn.unifi.it

Topics of interests

  • systematic research
  • taxonomy

Main areas of taxonomic expertise

  • Botany: Poaceae, Boraginaceae
  • Entomology: some beetle families (Lucanidae, Brentidae, Dytiscidae, Heteroceridae, Elmidae, Dryopidae, Staphylinidae Xantholinini)
  • Diptera Phoridae
  • water bugs (Hemiptera Gerromorpha, Nepomorpha, Leptopodomorpha)
  • Hymenoptera Tiphiidae
  • Odonata
  • Scorpiones
  • Crustacea Decapoda Brachyura and Crustacea Cirripedia
  • Mollusca Pulmonata, Prosobranchia and Bivalvia (Paleartic)
  • Mammalia:Chiroptera
  • Botanical Garden: Rosaceae, old varieties
  • Palaeontology: Fossil carnivores, Fossil Mollusca Bivalvia and Gasteropoda (Eocene and Pliocene)
  • Anthropology: Ethnography

Type of organisation

Institution Address

Via La Pira 4
50121 Florence
IT
segr-amm@msn.unifi.it

Director Representative

Dr.Lorenzo Cecchi

Contact


l.cecchi@unifi.it

Structure Chart

url : https://collections.naturalsciences.be/cpb/nh-collections/countries/italy/it-msn-unifi/1-cetaf-passport-administration/@@download/structure_chart_file
file : organigramma_florence.pdf

Governing & Executive bodies

 

 

 

 

Staff fields

staff total52.0
scientific staff collections (permanent)18.0
staff collection managers technicians (permanent)25.0
staff administrative (permanent)5.0
staff exhibitions (permanent)4.0

General Description

  • History of naturalistic collections (Mineralogy, Zoology, Botany, Anthropology, Ethnology, Palaeontology, Anatomical waxes) 
  • Systematics and taxonomy of several zoological groups
  • Plant taxonomy and nomenclature
  • Museology (i. e. history of collections, etc.)
  • Identification of plants in art

New tools for environmental education

New tools for environmental education is a partnership between three European Botanical Gardens, Florence, Madrid and Meise (Brussels). To identify new tools for environmental education to be proposed to teachers, botanical gardens, passionates, associations.

It is created a web site http://www2.msn.unifi.it/upload/sub/pdf/Grundtvic_botanic.pdf   where it is possible to find all the information about the project and to the voice "Guides corner" the guides of the three Botanical Gardens shared their experiences and best practices which can be used by the guides of others Botanical Gardens. In the web site it is also possible to find a handbook with many workshops, suggestions about environmental education. On the web site EST is possible to find the results of the project. http://www.europeansharedtreasure.eu/detail.php?id_project_base=2011-1-I...

 

Link of the Research page :  Research page

Link of the Annual report :

Research Fields

  • Anthropology / Physical anthropology (46.20.00)

Research Initiative

Activities and outreach with Universities
 

 

Activities and outreach with other public
 

 

Contact

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