Museo G.D. Cassini
Civic museum of Perinaldo dedicated to the astronomer Gian Domenico Cassini and the Maraldi family, with documents, drawings and portraits.
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About the museum
The museum was set up by the Comune di Perinaldo in 1997 and is dedicated to Gian Domenico Cassini, the astronomer born in the village who later worked in Genoa, Bologna and Paris. The route also recalls his descendants Giacomo Filippo and Gian Domenico Maraldi, likewise astronomers and cartographers from Perinaldo.
The display brings together documents, observation notes, drawings, letters and portraits that illustrate Cassini’s intense scientific activity and the stages of his life. The village keeps a strong link with astronomy: the municipal astronomical observatory offers themed meetings and evenings of observation open to the public, while along Via G. D. Cassini murals and a scale model of the solar system form a small open-air museum.
Highlights
- Documents, drawings and letters of Gian Domenico Cassini
- Section on the Maraldi, astronomers and cartographers of Perinaldo
- Portraits and observation notes
- Scale model of the solar system and murals along Via G. D. Cassini
Permanent exhibition
- Gian Domenico Cassini e i Maraldi – Documents, drawings, letters and portraits on the life and scientific work of Cassini and of his Maraldi descendants.
- Founded
- 1997
- Operated by
- Comune di Perinaldo
- Visitors per year
- approx. 1,200
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| Good to know | According to the ministry’s record, booking is not required. |
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