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Review of Musei Civici di Reggio Emilia

It is the museum of the city of Reggio Emilia, dat...

It is the museum of the city of Reggio Emilia, dating back over a century ago, contains many archaeological finds and not, is divided into several rooms. Inside we can already find paintings and go old, as well as a beautiful mosaic. Immediately after the rich assortment of objects from the Amazon and the East. Among these stands a human head shrunk over, several arrows with poisoned tip and a six-shot revolver of 1500. Even behind the glass we can also find a canoe with paddle and crossbows used by the Indians to go hunting. Do not miss oriental clothing and assorted jewelry. For those interested in the natural sciences it is possible to see numerous stuffed animals of earth, flying and aquatic. There is even a diorama, inspired by Africa, with large animals inside. They all come from the famous African safari of the 1800s, then donated to the museum by the most important reggiani of the time. These are explorers, scientists and scholars. In one room several mushrooms are exposed and in another some dry treatments to show the human anatomy. Do not miss Etruscan paintings and finds, in fact in the special room you can see some Etruscan funerary steles, it is not only. If you want there are also ancient and other golden objects. Perhaps this is the only museum to have a small, stuffed sperm whale. However, there are also many findings recently discovered in our province, artifacts, pottery, everyday objects such as buckles for belts, earrings and rings, a fossil whale and the fossil cast (fossil soil) of an ancient life form similar to a large worm.