Milan Natural History Museum

Milan Natural History Museum was founded in 1838 when naturalist Giuseppe de Cristoforis donated his collections to the city.nThe Museum is located within a 19th-century building in the Indro Montanelli Garden. The structure was built between 1888 and 1893 in Neo-Romanesque style with Gothic elements.nThe museum is divided into five different permanent sections: Mineralogy (with a large collection of minerals from all over the world); Paleontology (with several fossils of dinosaurs and other prehistoric organisms); Natural History of Man (with a particular attention to the relationship of the latter with the environment); Invertebrate Zoology; and Vertebrate Zoology .nThe museum also exhibits the largest Italian collection of full size dioramas (over 100) that allow visitors to observe some peculiar aspects of various ecosystems.