I reach Ilaria with a video interview that you will not see but that I want you to imagine from the words that I transcribed as they came. Many historians will speak – and after them social scientists, without any politician healing it – of a de facto annexation of a composite country by a minority kingdom.Ĭertainly from the end of the 1800s the immeasurable gap in the index of wealth, life expectancy, now also of births begins … That of happiness and that of education have not been able to widen it … With the ‘sack’ of the Savoias ( Italian royal family, ed), those companies that grind discoveries and wealth were ‘transferred’ to the north of the country, thus beginning the never extinct southern ‘question’ at its tragic! anniversary, when Italy was unified. Three young friends who have never lost themselves despite distant lives delve into a twelve-meter bus transformed into a theater (and occasionally a cinema) in an abandoned factory in San Giovanni a Teduccio, deep east of Naples once packed with futuristic international factories, just meters away from the first Italian railway. It captures me, torments me and I decide to know all the unspoken. To reach the first floor of the Collection, there is a stairlift that can be activated with the help of staff.In a lazy, foggy and desolate day in the deep North chaired by Lega racist party where it is difficult to find anything that looks like good theater, I browse my daily diet of news and in a Neapolitan newspaper, my hometown. The personnel is available to position two mobile aluminium track ramps with a 10%+ gradient. Such operator has a complete view on the entrance. The garden at the entrance features no handrails or buzzers, but there is a bell to call the operator beyond the glass door at the entrance. The Museum can present a few difficulties for visitors with mobility issues or walking difficulties. There is no means of visual communication in case of emergency in the bathrooms. The language of the brief texts requires discrete language skills, also due to the presence of many technical notions. There are no room panels or labels labels or captions are available only for a few important pieces, while objects are usually accompanied by original typewritten labels or notes by Cappellini. The access and navigation of the rooms do not present particular difficulties for the hearing impaired as there is no set itinerary.

The museum is part of Sistema Museale d'Ateneo Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna - SMA Show more Nowadays it is the largest and most important Italian palaeontological museum for vastness and importance of its collections. In the halls one can admire the spectacular skeletons of “Mastodonte proboscidato pliocenico”, the rich collection of Eocene fish of Monte Bolca, pliocene whales and the impressive model of Diplodocus Jurassic Dinosaur, twentysix meters long and four meters high.

Nowadays the collection witnesses more than five hundred years of educational and research activity, with assets of nearly one million pieces placed in the original furnishing of the late 19th century including rocks, plants, invertebrate and vertebrate fossils. Thanks to the important work of Giovanni Capellini, the first to hold the chair of Geology in Italy, the museum officially opened in 1881 and was enriched with geopaleontological finds from all over the world, of unsurpassed scientific, educational and expositive importance.

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