Museo Erbario

About the museum

The Museo Erbario of the Sapienza Università di Roma was established in 1872 on the initiative of the botanist Giuseppe De Notaris, initially in the former convent of San Lorenzo in Panisperna. The collection grew over time through purchases and the acquisition of private collections, such as those of Ettore Rolli and Vincenzo Cesati.

The Cesati herbarium, with more than 350,000 specimens, is considered the most important historic collection. In total the museum holds about one million dried plants and documents plant biodiversity. It also keeps the historical registers of the Regio Istituto e Orto Botanico di Roma (Royal Institute and Botanical Garden of Rome), which record exchanges with botanical gardens around the world. In 2019 the personal herbarium of Edda Lattanzi, of about 16,000 specimens, was acquired.

Today the museum is on the second floor of the Botany building of the Department of Environmental Biology, in the Città Universitaria (university campus).

Highlights

• About one million dried plant specimens
• Cesati herbarium with more than 350,000 specimens
• Historic registers of the Regio Istituto e Orto Botanico di Roma
• Personal herbarium of Edda Lattanzi, acquired in 2019

Permanent exhibition

• Collezioni dell'Erbario – Dried and pressed plant specimens, including the historic Cesati herbarium, and registers of the old Orto Botanico di Roma (Botanical Garden of Rome).

Founded

1872

Operated by

Sapienza Università di Roma – Polo museale

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The museum is on the second floor of the Botany building, Department of Environmental Biology (CU011), in the Città Universitaria.

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