Museo Mineralogico Campano - Museo Mineralogico Campano

The beauty of Earthly life forms over billions of years.

Paul Crutzen – Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 1995

The Museum is open

TUE – WED – THU – FRI – SAT

10:00am – 1:00pm

everyday

Monday closed

17:00 – 19:00

everyday except Sunday from March to September

From November to February, Sundays and every afternoon are reserved for groups who made a reservation in advance.
ENTRANCE

paid admission

The Campanian Mineralogical Museum

A useful and worthy initiative for our mother Earth

It is from stone that man has learned about his history and about the history of the planet he inhabits […] I hope that modern man will once more entrust his messages for future generations to stone, otherwise there will be precious little left of our civilization in 10 000 years’ time.

Roberto Giacobbo – Voyager

THE
CAPO D’ORLANDO PRIZE
and the Nobel Prize winners

All the prize-winners have visited the museum and have held conferences on their studies and activities at Castello Giusso.

(ita) Peter Ratcliff

(ita) Premio Nobel per la Medicina nel 2019,
at the Museum in 2021

(ita) May Britt Moser

(ita) Premio Nobel per la Medicina nel 2014,
at the Museum in 2020

(ita) Paul Nurse

Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2001,
at the Museum in 2019

(ita) Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

(ita) Nobel per la Chimica nel 2009,
at the Museum in 2018

(ita) Serge Haroche

(ita) Nobel per la Fisica nel 2012,
at the Museum in 2017

Stefan Walter Hell

Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2014,
at the Museum in 2016

Andre Geim

Nobel Prize for Physics in 2010,
at the Museum in 2015

Erwin Neher

Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1991,
at the Museum in 2014

George Fitzgerald Smoot

Nobel Prize for Physics in 2006,
at the Museum in 2012

Paul Robin Krugman

Nobel Prize for Economy in 2008,
at the Museum in 2011

Timothy Hunt

Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2001,
at the Museum in 2010

James Dewey Watson

Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1962,
at the Museum in 2009

Paul Jozef Crutzen

Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1995,
at the Museum in 2008

Harold Walter Kroto

Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1996,
at the Museum in 2007

Riccardo Giacconi

Nobel Prize for Physics in 2002,
at the Museum in 2005

John Forbes Nash

Nobel Prize for Economy in 1994,
at the Museum in 2003

Museum sections

The history of life as told by minerals and fossils

Our planet was born 4.7 billion years ago. Its history tells of great surface changes; just think of the “Continental Drift Theory” to which the museum’s Mesosaurus bears witness. This is a reptile from the Permian period and is one of the pieces of evidence used by Alfred Wegener in support of his theory. Through the various collections of minerals, fossils, shells and stone tools made by our progenitors, visitors can contemplate the great geological and biological transformations undergone by the Earth before man himself appeared. Man’s scientific evolution is featured, from his first tools made of stone, right through to the appearance of graphene, a material of geological origin at the forefront of the new industrial revolution.

ON DISPLAY

Palaeolithic implements
Neolithic tools
More than 500 specimens of gemstone
Graphene specimens

150 shells
3500 minerals from all over the world
100 Vesuvian minerals
250 fossil specimens

News from the museum

News & Events

Information on cultural initiatives organized by the museum or planned soon for the Sorrento Peninsula, as well as news of scientific interest.