Differences Between Progresimism And Essentialism

History ...

In Nineteenth century, the growing number of exhibits allowed the separation of the collections so that gave rise to three independent museums: Comparative Anatomy (1875), Geology and Palaeontology (1887) and Zoology, as a teaching support of institutions of the same name.
Under the direction of Pietro Pavesi (1876-1907) who was also mayor of the city of Pavia, the Museum of Zoology reached its peak by collecting over 50,000 specimens. In this period the famous collection of land shells Issel and many mammals, including a gorilla, an orangutan, two gibbons, lemurs, an African elephant and the splendid collection of spiders of the same Pavesi.

With the transfer of the Institutes of Comparative Anatomy (1903) and Zoology (1935) also found a new location for its museum in the Palazzo Botta. Between 1956 and 1961, the collections of three museums were transported from the Visconti Castle in the ostensible purpose of making it to the public on the basis of an agreement between the University, City and County which provided for the establishment of a Museum of Natural History.

Unfortunately, the collections were left to themselves for over thirty years, until the establishment of the Interdepartmental Center of Services "University Museums" (1989) that, with the collaboration of the City and the Province of Pavia, initiated Since 1995, the restoration of the collections, allowing, in the last three years, usability some findings in three exhibitions: "Images of ornithology in 800 in Pavia in 1996," Fishes of yesterday and today "in 1997 and" Claws and teeth: large and small predators "in 1998, organized during the week of scientific and technological culture promoted by the MURST

recovery and protection of museum collections in the interest of researchers and students, but also the general public, aimed at preservation of a priceless heritage and Scientific and consolidation of collaboration between universities and public bodies in order to allow the permanent availability of the findings through the creation of a Museum of Natural History.