Museo di Storia Naturale
The Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano traces its origins to 1838, when the naturalist Giuseppe de Cristoforis donated his collections to the city. The museum’s first director was the taxonomist Giorgio Jan, setting a scientific tone that still shapes what you see here: animals, plants, and the natural world down to geology. Today the institution occupies a 19th-century building within the Indro Montanelli Garden, near the historic gate of Porta Venezia. That structure was built between 1888 and 1893 in a Neo-Romanesque style with Gothic elements, and it incorporates a library. Inside, the museum is organized into five permanent sections—from Mineralogy and Paleontology to Invertebrate Zoology and Vertebrate Zoology—plus Natural History of Man, focused on the origins and evolution of humans and their relationship with the environment. …
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