They are part of the Polo: Civic Natural History Museum, the Planetarium "Ulrico Hoepli" and the Civic Aquarium and Hydrobiological Station.
Civic Natural History Museum
Open to the public in September 1844 is the oldest civic museums of Milan. Today, along with the Planetarium, it is the center of the activities of the Garden of Sciences. There are permanent exhibitions of Mineralogy, Palaeontology, Natural History of Man, Invertebrate Zoology, Vertebrate Zoology, in addition to the sections of Botany and Entomology. It contains the only dinosaur skeleton existing in Italy!
Planetarium "Ulrico Hoepli"
Located in the Public Gardens "Montanelli Indro", a few meters from the Natural History Museum, is the largest planetarium in Italy. Donated to the city by the publisher Ulrico Hoepli in 1929, was inaugurated in May the following year. The main activity of the Planetarium is now in schoolastic and public lectures on astronomical observation and dedicated to the knowledge of the stars.
Civic Aquarium and Hydrobiological Station
Located adjacent to the Arena Civica on the edge of the Sempione Park, the Aquarium was founded in 1906 as part of the International Exhibition in Milan. Completely restored, both externally and internally, it hosts 36 gigantic pools filled with more than 100 species of fish, living in recreated environments ranging from the Amazon to the Mediterranean.
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