Things to do in Province of Trieste, Friuli Venezia Giulia: The Best Specialty Museums

Immaginario Scientifico is a science centre: an interactive and experimental museum, where you can literally “touch” science. Hands-on exhibits, multi projections, a planetarium, laboratories, lectures and tinkering sessions: in this way visitors become protagonists of an experience that shows how science is at everyone’s reach and can be a lot of fun!

Museum of Speleology Take the opportunity to enter the world of caves just in the city centre where an old bunker from WW2 has been turned in a museum. Discover history, geology and life of the lightless world and meet the animals that live underground!!!

The Biblioteca Beethoveniana is a large private collection that gathers essential historical, musical, artistic and cultural testimonies about Ludwig van Beethoven, his Works and his Myth from the early 19th century to the present day. More than 11,000 items, organized in 12 different collections, emphasise the variety of ways in which Beethoven's Myth and legacy affected countless forms of Art. Through a 10-rooms guided tour, within a unique and fascinating atmosphere, you rediscover the allure and fascination of sculptures, paintings, art prints, antique and contemporary books and editions, historical documents, objets d'art, ex libris and medals, the world of postcards, stamps and picture cards, advertising, kitsch and much more besides. The collection encompasses items that cannot be jointly admired in any other museum. It leads to multiple journeys between past and present through every form of Art. Moreover, it offers new resources to scholars, academics and musicians.

SIAMO APERTI!!! Il museo "Casa di Osiride Brovedani" è un luogo della memoria, da visitare per conoscere la vita di uno dei benefattori di Trieste, le cui vicende personali e imprenditoriali, con la Fissan, si intrecciano con la storia della città del Novecento, e per scoprire quanto lontano si può andare quando si crede in se stessi e nella forza delle proprie idee. Il ricordo del passato è essenziale per vivere il presente con una maggiore consapevolezza. Occorre ricordare la tragedia nazista, e gli altri episodi di sterminio del XX secolo, per saper riconoscere la deriva ideologica e frenarla sul nascere. E occorre anche avere il riferimento, per trarne ispirazione, dagli esempi di chi, come Brovedani, con grandi sacrifici e parecchia tenacia, non ha mai perso la speranza, anzi: l’ha usata come chiave per costruirsi una vita nuova, per darsi un’altra possibilità e non rimanere inscatolato in un’esistenza di routine e insoddisfazione.

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The oldest and most important Science Museum in the area, with over 2 million specimens, mostly from the Adriatic and the Karst. The museum is especially famous for owning and displaying some great finds and specimens.The dinosaur Antonio, known to science as Tethyshadros insularis, is the largest and most complete Italian dinosaur, but also one of the most important paleontological discoveries in Europe. The only one of its genus of all the known dinosaurs in the world and the only complete specimen ever found of this species, it is an original and indigenous fossil, found in the coastal cliffs of the Villaggio del Pescatore (20 km NW of Trieste).From prehistory and from this area (in this case, from Slovenian Istria ) comes yet another exhibit that is unique in human history… Lonche (or Loka) Man, the oldest example of the use of beekeeping for dental care. It is a human jawbone from more than 6,400 years ago, which has a dental filling medicated with beeswax.Finally, from the North Adriatic, we have Carlotta, an imposing female Great White Shark, 5.4 m (almost 18 ft) long. Caught by an adventurous captain in 1906, it is the largest and most spectacular shark carnivore in Europe and the second largest in the world, among those that are fully preserved.At the Museum you can also admire: the Wunderkammer (or Room of Wonders) with original exhibits from every continent, reconstructing the Wunderkammer from the dawn of science museums. Then there is the faithful rearrangement (always with original and period furnishings ) of the Zoological Cabinet that two centuries ago gave rise to this very Museum of Trieste. In the dinosaur halls we can find not only Antonio, but also the Acynodon adriaticus, an extraordinary fossil crocodile and oyster-eater and the ancient Marchesetti’s Carsosaurus (a mysterious primitive marine reptile). On the upper floor there are also the rooms on the Evolution of Man (with all the major stages of the development of our species), the rooms displaying the Giants of the Earth and Sea (elephants, Monk Seals, whales and the mythical Narwhal the unicorn of the sea), the Theatre of Skeletons and the room displaying the Cycle of Life. At the end you'll find yourself immersed in the sea, amidst sharks, corals, giant crabs and the Coelacanth, an ancestral fish from the abyss and a true living fossil.