Museums and Expositions

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Air and Space Museum at Due Carrare

The San Pelagio Castle hosts a complete exhibition dedicated to one of the greatest challenges of mankind: the quest to conquer the skies and space.

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Museum of River Navigation at Battaglia Terme

The first museum dedicated to the major activities of the “barcari”, the boatmen.

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Geopaleontological Museum of Cava Bomba at Cinto Euganeo

In 1987, following the discovery the discovery of an important deposit of fish fossils in the quarry, it became paleontology museum.

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Atestino National Museum of Este

The Museum of the ancient Venetians...

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Amleto and Donato Sartori International Mask Museum at Abano Terme

The only one of its kind in the world, housing the prestigious works of Amleto Sartori and his son Donato, internationally renowned artists...

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Butterfly Arc – House of Butterflies at Montegrotto Terme

The Butterfly Arc or House of Butterflies hosts multi-coloured living specimens from all continents.

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Primo Guido Omesti Permanent Exhibition of Fossils Minerals and Rocks at Montegrotto Terme

It is a reference point for lovers and students of mineralogy and palaeontology.

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Esapolis – Museum of Living Insects, Silkworms and Bees at Brusegana

2500 sq.m of fantastic exhibitions with hundeds of small living animals from the silkworms, the leafcutting ants, to the giant beetles and tropical fishes and anphibian.

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Orazio and Giulia Centanin Steam Machines Museum at Monselice

The museum collection contains mainly fixed or semi-fixed steam engines dated between the late 19th and the early 20th century.

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Musme – Museum of the History of Medicine at Padua

The Musme, Museum of the History of Medicine at Padova, will illustrate the century-old history of medicine.

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Dino Formaggio Contemporary Art Museum at Teolo

The museum holdings include paintings and sculpture collections dated from the end of the 19th century up to today.

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Naturalistic Museum of Euganean Hills at Baone

The naturalistic collection of the province museum where aspects of vegetation and fauna of Euganean Hills and the surrounding area are well illustrated.

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Museum of the River Bacchiglione at Cervarese Santa Croce

The Museum of the River Bacchiglione at Cervarese Santa Croce is divided into two sections: the archaeological section and the geomorphologic section.

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Pre-Cinema Museum Minici Zotti Collection at Padua

It represents a unique example among Italian museums, almost a "museum of wonders".

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Longobard Antiquarium at Monselice

The Longobard Antiquarium at Monselice, located in the library of Cini Castle, includes a longobard necropolis.

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Carlo Scarpa Museum of Rarity at Monselice

Carlo Scarpa Museum collects sculptures, drawings, design objects, glass and other works signed in the thirties by the great Venetian architect and designer Carlo Scarpa.

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Franciscan Missionary Museum at Monselice

Since 1992, a wide hall of the Franciscan Missionary Museum displays items brought to Italy by missionaries and once spread around the various convents and monasteries in the Veneto area.

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Museum of Holocaust and Landscape at Vo’ Vecchio

The Place of Holocaust Remembrance, with the remains of the kitchens used by inmates and panels that describe the tragedy they experienced.

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Museum of Ancient Streets at San Salvaro

The ancient monastery of San Salvaro is home to the Museum of Ancient Streets at San Salvaro.

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Museum of the Roman Centuriation System at Granze

The Museum of the Roman Centuriation System at Granze explore the pattern the human presence created in this area starting from the lands centuriation in Roman times.

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Museum of Disappeared Villages at Villa Estense

The Museum of Disappeared Villages at Villa Estense displays findings, documents and aerial photographs of hamlets located in the area south of Padua.

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Ethnographic Museum at Stanghella

The Ethnographic Museum, through seven rooms, examines and shows the influence of human settlements on the territory from prehistory to the coming of agricultural mechanization.

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Casa Marina at Galzignano Terme

Laboratory for Naturalist Education and Learning Library of the Park.

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Museum of the Diocese at Padua

The Museum of the Diocese at Padua is housed in the elegant rooms of Palazzo Vescovile (Bishop's Palace) and covers more then two thousand square metres.

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Tower of Malta Archaeological Museum at Cittadella

The Tower of Malta Archaeological Museum at Cittadella opened in the early 1990s after the discovery of archaeological findings dating to Bronze, Copper, Roman, Medieval and Modern Ages.

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La Specola – Museum of the Astronomic Observatory at Padua

Padua Astronomic Observatory was founded by Senate decree of the Republic of Venice on 2nd May, 1761, and was located inside the high tower of Padua old castle.

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Botanical Garden at Padua

The Botanical Garden at Padua is exceptional by virtue of its high scientific value in terms of experimentation, education and collection, and of its layout and architecture.

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Eremitani Archaeological Museum at Padua

The itinerary of the archaeological collection begins with findings from pre-Roman times, coming from necropolises in the area surrounding Padova...

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Eremitani Museum of Medieval and Modern Art at Padua

The picture gallery counts about 3000 paintings, with works by Giorgione and Tiziano, drawing a comprehensive outline of Veneto painting between the 15th and 18th centuries.

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Applied and Decorative Arts Museum at Padua

The Applied and Decorative Arts Museum hosts more then two thousand objects of applied and decorative arts which are part of the collections of Padua Medieval and Modern Art Museum.

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Bottacin Museum at Padua

The exhibition is organized into two different parts: one concerning artworks, the other the numismatic section.

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Risorgimento and Contemporary Age Museum at Padua

It covers one and a half centuries of national and Padua history: from the fall of the Repubblica Veneta in 1797 to the promulgation of the Italian constitution back in 1948.

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Museum of the Roman Centuriation at Borgoricco

It collects items found in the municipal territory, situated in the North East area of Padua, where are still intact the traces of land division during Octavian Augustus period.

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Antonio Giacomelli Museum at Montagnana

The Antonio Giacomelli Museum at Montagnana, devoted to the memory of the local researcher Antonio Giacomelli, is located in San Zeno Castle.

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Maap – Archaeological Environmental Museum of Padua Waters at Padua

The museum is set in the enchanting frame of the former Church of St Eufemia, in Padua, a building of great historical and architectural value.

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Greek Roman Lapidary Museum at Piazzola sul Brenta

The Greek Roman Lapidary Museum at Piazzola sul Brenta is situated in the eastern colonnade of Villa Contarini and contains the remains of an ancient collection started by Antonio Nani.

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Church of Saint Massimo Museum at Borghetto

The small country church is now open to the public both as holy site and as museum with findings ranging from the early Christian age to the 19th century.

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Rural Society Museum at Carceri

The Rural Society Museum at Carceri offers a comprehensive overview of old rural customs and traditions.

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Scodosia Ethnographic Museum at Casale di Scodosia

The Scodosia Ethnographic Museum at Casale di Scodosia hosts a collection of tools, objects and machines employed during the past decades and become obsolete.

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Rural Culture Museum at Piove di Sacco

The rooms of the 'Casone di via Ramei' have been furnished with original tools and objects that well witness the local rural life and the economic organization of Padua rural areas.

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Umbro Apollonio Museum of Contemporary Art at San Martino di Lupari

The Umbro Apollonio Museum of Contemporary Art at San Martino di Lupari hosts the only Italian permanent exhibition on a specific artistic movement, the Constructivism.

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Museum of San Pio X at Tombolo

The Museum of San Pio X at Tombolo was inaugurated on 19th December 1999, at the end of the century that had begun with the papacy of Pio X.

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Museum of the Third Army at Padua

The Museum of the Third Army at Padua is housed in the 15th-century Palazzo Camerini, where cardinal Pietro Bembo lived.

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African Missionary Museum at Padua

The African Missionary Museum was established thanks to Capuchin friars who brought to Italy items of great artistic and ethnographical value as well as everyday life artefacts.

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Unknown Prisoner National Museum at Padua

The Unknown Prisoner National Museum was established by the National Association of Former Interned to remember Italian soldiers imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps.

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Museum of Saint Anthony at Padua

The Museum of Saint Anthony at Padua was created in 1895 on the occasion of the seventh centenary of St Anthony's death.

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Museum of Force Association at Padua

The Museum of Italian Sailors Association at Padua holds an interesting small collection of seafaring items.

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Museum of Cathedral at Cittadella

The Museum of Cathedral at Cittadella, founded in 1986 with the parish support, is the result of years of research and of the excellent work of valuable volunteers.

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Belzoni Historical Museum at Padua

The Belzoni Historical Museum at Padua is a museum-laboratory that holds more than 400 scientific tools mainly dated around the time of the foundation of 'G.B.Belzoni' school in 1869.

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Collection of Models of Agricultural Machines and Tools at Legnaro

The Collection of Models of Agricultural Machines and Tools at Legnaro is part of the bequest left by the 'Regio Orto Agrario' of Padua.

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Obstetric Collection at Padua

A collection including female anatomical models made of coloured wax and clay, surgical instruments, and the didactic material used for the first obstetric laboratory he founded in Padua.

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Venetian Herbarium Museum of Monte Ceva at Battaglia Terme

This herbarium has been the commissioned subject of study and categorization by the Geobotanical Institute of Padova University.

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Shoe Museum at Stra

Villa Foscarini Rossi Shoe Museum at Stra is located in a seventeenth century estate by the Brenta River.