Randazzo: Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali

c/o istituto "Santa Giovanna Antida" Via Cesare Beccaria 1 - 95036 Randazzo tel. 095/7991214 int. 155.

Opening hours: 9.30 A.M. - 1 P.M.; 4 P.M. - 7 P.M. every day included public holidays. Entrance: £ 2000 single visitors, £ 1000 per person for groups; reduction for groups and school classes. Services: Guided tours, restoration laboratory. Transport from Catania: AST and SAIS bus services.

The Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali is located in a side of the raised-floor of the Institute "Santa Giovanna Antida". From the entrance hall you pass into a big corridor where there are six hanging showcases; the first three show butterflies, belonging to a suborder of the Rhopalocera captured in most part in Sicily. In hall 1 we find numerous naturalistic findings (fossils, minerals, rocks, shells). The examples of Sicilian Pleistocene fauna, many ammonites and some fossil fish, are of great importance. The second showcase contains some volcanic products such as volcanic tuff which keeps the mark of a flintstone. The other halls of the museum have a huge ornithological collection. You can see all the species which normally nest in Sicily and some extinct birds or those which are almost extinct in Sicily such as the Black Partridge, the Meadow Hen, the Sea-Gull, the Eagle-Owl, the Lammergeyer, the Sultun Chicken, the Green Woodpecker and the Black Woodpecker, the Bearded Tit.

Provincial Tourism Board of Catania
http://www.apt-catania.com
E-mail : apt@apt-catania.com