Buildings of historical importance
Palazzo Faraggiana (Novara)
Category: Buildings of historical importance
After the Museo Regionale di Storia Naturale (Regional Museum of Natural History) in Torino, the Museo Faraggiana in Novara has the best and most valuable zoological collection in Piemonte. The collection includes about 300 specimens of mammals, 640 birds and 130 reptiles, amphibians and fish from all over the world. There are also skins, antlers, and trophies of mammals from Italy and abroad, such as black rhinoceros heads and tusks. A significant number of fossil and mineralogical findings, as well as a herbarium recently donated, have been placed alongside the large Ethnographic collection from the Museo Ferrandi which includes more than one thousand objects collected by Ugo Ferrandi during his travels in Eritrea and Somalia from 1886 to 1920. Over the years, other citizens from Novara have also enriched the museum’s collection by donating objects from the regions of African, American, and the Far East.
Information
Via G. Ferrari, 13 - 28100 Novara
Tel. +39.0321.3702755 - Fax: +39.0321.3702760
E-mail: musei@comune.novara.it
www.comune.novara.it
