Within the Museo di Storia Naturale Faraggiana Ferrandi, the Museo Etnografico Ugo Ferrandi holds, alongside its predominantly African collections, a small nucleus of objects from Mesoamerica and the Gran Chaco, dating to the nineteenth century. The museum, initially installed in the Palazzo del Mercato (Palazzo Orelli), was transferred in 1957 to several rooms on the first floor of Palazzo Faraggiana, where it remained open to the public until the early 1980s.