Natural History Museum, Venice

Natural History Museum is housing various local scientific collections, related to the natural history of the Venetian lagoon, spanning 700 million years. It contains 2 million finds, zoological, entomological and botanical collections, fossils and anatomic preparations, as well as ethnographic collections.

There is also a library with over 40 thousand volumes.

The Museum is housed in the Fontego dei Turchi, a palazzo for the Pesaro family in the 13th century, and became later the Fontego (place for work and living) for Turkish merchants in the city.

The museum is managed by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia.

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