Sistema Museale di Ateneo – Museo delle Scienze

The Museo delle Scienze of the Università degli Studi di Camerino was established by Rector’s Decree no. 476 of 19 October 1987, under the name Museo di Scienze Naturali, with the aim of promoting scientific research, outreach, and museum education related to the nature of the Marche region and the central Apennines. From 30 May 2003 until the seismic events of 2016 it was housed in the fifteenth-century San Domenico complex, to which it is expected to return in about a year. Under the new Statute of the University of Camerino, the Museum became part of the University Museum System, which includes structures devoted to teaching and research together with the University’s Botanical Garden. The Biocca Collection reached what was then the Museo di Scienze Naturali in 1996, when Professor Ettore Biocca decided to donate his personal collection to the University of the territory from which his family originated. The collection comprises artifacts and zoological specimens gathered during the expedition conducted, under the patronage of the CNR, among the Yanoáma people between November 1962 and July 1963.