The ground floor of the Natural History Museum of Venice Giancarlo Ligabue houses two exhibition rooms:

the Cetaceans gallery,

the Fontego dei Turchi.

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On the second floor there are three sections that could be considered as museums inside the museum:

On the tracks of life, dedicated to fossils and paleontology;

Collecting to astonish, collecting for research, on the evolution of naturalist collecting and scientific museology;

The strategies of life, form and function in living things.

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The Natural History Museum of Venice Giancarlo Ligabue
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English booklet
(PDF 538Kb) – Translations in English for all text of the multi-language explanation panales in the museum are gathered in an information booklet, wich you can download >>