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Natural environments: exploring biodiversity through the collections of University Museums

Biodiversity, intended as the variety of forms of life and environmental contexts, reconnects the idea of “living heritage” and the heritage preserved by museums, which has been described and exposed according the criteria developed by history of science over the centuries. Natural history museums, with their collections ranging from geology, mineralogy and paleontology up to botany and zoology, provide a unitary idea of the natural world, constituting an essential archive of geo-/biodiversity data, both in the past and in the present. University Museums allow to recreate an image of the past configuration of the ecosystems, thus helping to recognize the recent transformations. Along this perspective it is possible to re-define the museum heritage, not conceived anymore as a collection of specimens connected among them by an autonomous system of meaning, but figured as a chance to establish a living relationship with the present reality and with that heritage which is the biological diversity.

All the itineraries:

• The geo-paleontological heritage of Puglia

• Wetlands of the Apulian coast

• The coastal areas of Puglia: the rocky and sandy coasts

• Università di Bari

• Sardinian birds, from the 18th century collections to date

• A journey in the Sulcis with Alberto Ferrero, count of La Marmora

• Sardinian vegetation diversity: Patrizio Gennari and the flora of Caprera

• Università di Cagliari

• From seed to plant: collections for a modular botany

• Infinite and wonderful forms: an education in zoology

• University of Chieti

• High altitude birds in the Umbria-Marches Apennine area

• Birdlife along the River Tiber

• Birdlife of the Lake Trasimeno basin

• Birdlife of the Pliocene clay hills, gullies and badlands

• University of Perugia

• The moon and the sun in the woods: biodiversity in Tuscia

• Life in the Open Spaces: the Entomological Collections

• Life in the desert environments

• University of Tuscia

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