The Campanian Mineralogical Museum (Italian: Museo Mineralogico Campano) is a natural history museum in Vico Equense, Campania, Italy. It opened on 22 October 1992 and is housed in the former convent of the Santissima Trinità e Paradiso.
The museum displays more than 3,500 minerals representing 1,400 species from around the world. Its collections also include fossils, gemstones, meteorites, shells and prehistoric stone tools. A palaeontological section was added in 1997, followed by an anthropological section in 2003.
The museum promotes the Capo d'Orlando Prize, an annual scientific and cultural award established in 1999.
References
External links Official website