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Museo di Geologia e Paleontologia

Natural History Museum

4 Via Giorgio La Pira
Firenze, Firenze 50121

Phone: +39 055 275 7536

This museum is the most important of its kind in Italy and gathers together some 300,000 examples of fossilized vertebrates, invertebrates and plants as well as rock samples. Visitors should also take note of the anthropoid monkey of the Maremma, the imprints of Mesozoic reptiles and the non-aviatory birds from New Zealand.

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