Pavia Natural History Museum in Italy

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Pavia Natural History Museum
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Local name	Museo di Storia Naturale
Type	museum
Founded	1771
Address	Via Alessandro Guffanti, 13
Zip-code	27100
Place	Pavia
Country	Italy
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Owner

Zoological department
Elephant department
Record history
History of updates	2021-07-01xx

Latest document update	2021-07-01 00:42:51
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Description

Pavia Natural History Museum, located at Via Alessandro Guffanti, 13, in Pavia, Italy , was founded in 1771.

Taxidermy specimens

Pavia Natural History Museum has in its collection 1 elephantine museum specimens with records in this database:

(Measurements of teeth and body parts follow the system described by Maglio (1973; P = plate number, L = length, W = width, H = height, LF = lamellar frequency)

The elephant of Napoleon Accession nr: . Received: 2015-04-30 ♀ The elephant of Napoleon
Species: Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
* Born 1770 at West Bengal Unspecified location † Dead 1782-09-25 at Versailles menagerie
Death: accident Death reason: drawned after falling into the waters of a canal in the park
Body, bone or dental material: skin,
Mounted 1812 by Vincenzo Rosa

Comments / picturesThe Natural History Museum (Italian: Museo di Storia Naturale) in Pavia, Italy is a museum displaying many natural history specimens, located in Palazzo Botta. Founded in 1775, it was one of the oldest museums of natural history in Europe. It currently forms the University of Pavia museum network, along with 5 other museums — the University History Museum, Museum of Electrical Technology, Museum of Archeology, Museum Camillo Golgi and Museum of Mineralogy.

The museum was founded as part of the renovation projects by the empress Maria Theresa of Austria for the University of Pavia in 1771. It was set up by Lazzaro Spallanzani, a professor of Natural History in the university. The museum received its first collection, minerals from Vienna, which were donated by the empress Maria Theresa.

The collections were kept at Collegio Ghislieri until 1775, when they were moved to Palazzo Centrale, where the collections were catalogued according to the Linnaen Classification system.

References for records about Pavia Natural History Museum

Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan (2026). Pavia Natural History Museum, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=3214. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

https://museokosmos.eu/il-museo/storia-del-museo/

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