Museums

The SiMuA’s thematic museums are six, well-established for many years already, now recognized and appreciated both scientifically and culturally.

Among them, the Botanical Garden stands out with its 220 years of history and the huge amount of its floras, is the flagship of the living museums in Europe, as well as the starting point of the botanical studies in Sicily. The Zoology Museum “P. Doderlein”, the Geology Museum “G.G. Gemmellaro” and the Specola Museum hosted in the ancient Astronomic Observatory (1790) have an high-profile role, both for their important finds and for their conspicuous scientific value.

Finally, the Radiology Museum and the Engines and Mechanisms Museum, thanks to the peculiarity of their collections, are authentic jewels that constitute two unique museum realities in the disciplinary context they represent.