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  • Interior of the Museo del Minerale, Campiglia Marittima.zoom in altra finestra
  • Entrance to the Museo del Minerale, Campiglia Marittima.zoom in altra finestra

Museo del Minerale [Mineral Museum]

Founded in 1968 by a group of lovers of mineralogy, the Museum houses some 1500 minerals from Tuscany and other regions of Italy, as well as minerals from Brazil, Morocco and South Africa, including a meteorite.

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Texts by Graziano Magrini

English translation by Victor Beard

Last update 23/gen/2008