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SHORT DESCRIPTION: The herbarium is one of the most distinguished collections of the museum. it consists of a historical and a modern part. The historical part was composed by Minà Palumbo between 1834 and 1874. It includes approximately 7000 dried artefacts divided into 110 document cases, belonging to 1340 specific and infraspecific taxa collected almost […]

SHORT DESCRIPTION: The entomological collection is the biggest collected by Minà Palumbo. It consists of approximately 3500 units divided in 78 boxes (arising from the meeting of the 140 original samples, following the restoration carried out in the ’90s on behalf of the Regional Commission for Sicilian Culture and Identity. The collection includes different types […]

The paleontological collection is one of the most interesting of the museum. It includes about 80 samples of madreporic limestones of the Madonie, 20 samples of Fucoid Marls, some finds of vertebrate fossils related to the Elephas sp. and the Hippopotamus sp., about 500 fossils of corals, some gastropods such as the Cassidaria minae, the […]

SHORT DESCRIPTION: The collection consists of hundreds of samples probably well identified in origin. These are some beautiful and valuable Sicilian findings, not only from a collecting point of view, gathered directly by Minà Palumbo or acquired by him from other commercial sources. The collection also includes important local, organogenic artefacts even because they have […]

This is a remarkable collection for the number and value of its components, which formed the basis of the work that Minà Palumbo published on the human being and his presence on the Madonie, from the Palaeolithic onwards. Minà Palumbo was, in fact, one of the greatest scholars of the Sicilian prehistory. As concerning the […]

It is an extraordinary scientific work, comprising over 500 coloured plates, on the nature of the Madonie, which Minà Palumbo painted between 1836 and 1859. There are described hundreds of plants (200 tables), birds (191 tablets) , reptiles, amphibians, insects, terrestrial molluscs. The work, a combination of culture, art and science, as a result of […]

SHORT DESCRIPTION: The books left by the scholar today is of about 2000 volumes. it includes works published between the XVI and the late XIX Century. The great part of those belonging to the ancient body are of a religious nature, but there are also some remarkable rarities of a great historical, natural and cultural […]

SHORT DESCRIPTION: It consists of 10 paintings made by Dr. Maria Vinci representing large veteran trees of the Madonie interpreted using a stronger language rather than the photographic image. They are part of the collection “Il Respiro del Tempo” These works, inspired by the monuments of the living nature of the Madonie, have the following […]

SHORT DESCRIPTION: The documentary exhibition takes into account some aspects of manna obtained from various vegetal species, and containing diverse properties and uses, but especially that of the ash trees (Fraxinus angustifolia and F. ornus) which is connected to a particular local culture that still survives in the countryside of Castelbuono and Pollina, and which […]

SHORT DESCRIPTION: A small part of the ornithological collection of Dr. Carlo Orlando was added in the ’70s to the original nucleus formed with the multiple collections made by Minà Palumbo. In 2006 the collections were enriched with a collection of over 200 species of birds and various other vertebrates, made by Antonio Venchierutti in […]