Natural Sciences Museum

Belvì Museum of Natural sciences was born in 1980 by the passion for nature of a group of local friends guided by professor Friedric Reichsgraf Von Hartig, an entomologist of international fame. The museum is organized into 6 sections: particularly the first part is for mineralogy and displays around 300 fossils dating back to Paleozoic and Quaternary and more than 1000 samples of minerals collected in Sardinian mines. It also presents a small section for entomologists with exhibitions of dipterous, beetles and lepidoptera coming from Sardinia and the rest of the world and some arthropods (scorpions, spiders, etc). The Museum hosts furthermore 400 species of Sardinian avifauna, 70 mammals, 200 different types of Sardinian shells. The path closes with the amphybious and reptilian section made by 45 species and the fish section, (about 20 specimen aming cartilaginous and osseous).