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C.I. SAN VALENTINO IN ABRUZZO CITERIORE

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Historical Itineraries

Museum of Fossils and Amber

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MAJELLA NATIONAL PARK

Via Badia 28, Sulmona
+39 0864 25701
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Welcome to the Museum of Fossils and Amber

Fossils and dinosaur exhibits in a museum with stone walls.

Inaugurated in 2004, in the Villa Delfina Olivieri de Cambacérès complex, the Museum currently hosts a rich collection of Quaternary fossil animals and a wide and valuable section dedicated to paleoanthropology, a series of finds on the history of human evolution and his presence on Earth.

Inside, fossils from Abruzzo are also on display, with particular attention to those from the Majella, fossil shark teeth, mollusk shells, lamellibranchs and gastropods, algae, coral skeletons, and remains of aquatic life. In the Dinosaur Room, alongside a rich display of pterosaurs, flying reptiles, it is possible to admire a Deinonychus, the Scipionyx Samniticus known as Ciro, and the Australopithecus afarensis called Lucy.

Over 500 pieces of precious amber from the subsoil and seabeds of all over the world, for a unique exhibition in Italy, make up the Amber Room, by master goldsmiths Giampiero and Fabio Verna from Pescara. A series of panels accompany the visitor to discover the extraordinary history of amber, the “tears of the gods.” Among the most interesting showcases are those dedicated to Baltic amber, Dominican amber, as well as the Italian one, rare and precious, called “simetite.”

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