Museo ornitologico
Civic museum in Chiaramonte Gulfi with stuffed specimens of Sicilian and Mediterranean birds, housed in the Palazzo Montesano complex.
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About the museum
The bird museum is part of the civic museum complex of Chiaramonte Gulfi, based in the 18th-century Palazzo Montesano, an example of Baroque civil architecture restored and given over to museum use. It holds a rich collection of stuffed specimens of birds of Sicilian and Mediterranean fauna, for scientific, educational and outreach purposes.
The same palazzo also houses the Museo dell’olio and other exhibition spaces devoted to local history and traditions.
Highlights
- Stuffed birds of Sicilian and Mediterranean fauna
- Scientific and educational purposes
- Housed in the 18th-century Palazzo Montesano
Permanent exhibition
- Collezione ornitologica – Stuffed specimens of birds from Sicily and the Mediterranean.
- Operated by
- Comune di Chiaramonte Gulfi
- Visitors per year
- approx. 3,500
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