Rome - University City Città Universitaria
When the Papal University, the "Sapienza", became too small, plans were considered from 1870 onwards for replacing it with new university buildings. This large new complex was built by Mussolini in 1932-35, but it too soon became inadequate for the number of students. In the University City are a number of small museums.
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Città Universitaria - Anthropology Museum
The Anthropology Museum is located at the Institute of Anthropology on the second floor. Displays include human skeletons of prehistoric and protohistoric ages.
Città Universitaria - Geology Museum
The Geological Museum is located inside the Department of Earth Science, University of Rome La Sapienza. Exhibits include rocks specimens, panels, plaster models and videos dealing with various geological topics: Earth history, origin of rocks, geological risks. Some nineteenth-century collections of ancient marbles are exposed, the most important being the well-known T. Belli
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Città Universitaria - Herbarium
The Herbarium is located in the Institute of Botany on the second floor. It contains 420,000 specimens and is the second most important herbarium in Italy.
Città Universitaria - Mineralogy Museum
The Minerology Museum is located in the Institute of Mineralogy and Petrography. Exhibits include marbles, rocks and fossil collections.
Città Universitaria - Paleontology Museum
The Paleontology Museum is located in the Institute of Geology on the second floor. Exhibits include fossil remains of vertebrates and invertebrates with some specimens of quaternary mammals of Latium and Mediterranean areas.
