Museo Mineralogico Campano
Vico Equense (NA)
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The story
In a seventeenth-century former convent of Vico Equense, thousands of minerals from all over the world gathered by a single enthusiast, down to a fragment of graphene donated by a Nobel laureate.
The story
The Campano Mineralogical Museum, at Vico Equense, was born in 1992 from the passion of the collector Pasquale Discepolo, and since 2011 it has been housed in a former seventeenth-century convent. It is among the most important mineralogy museums in the South, with thousands of minerals, fossils and scientific curiosities.
What to see
About three thousand five hundred minerals on display — including the crystals of the Somma-Vesuvius gathered after the 1944 eruption — meteorites, over five hundred precious stones, fossils with the dinosaur 'Ciro' from Pietraroja, and even a sample of graphene donated by the Nobel laureate André Geim. A surprising museum suited to all.
Tips
The museum has its own entrance and hours: check on the official site. It is very suited to families and children. You are in the centre of Vico Equense, to be combined with the nearby former cathedral sheer above the sea.
Frequently asked questions
What is the Campano Mineralogical Museum?
A museum of mineralogy and palaeontology at Vico Equense, born in 1992 from the collection of Pasquale Discepolo, with thousands of minerals, fossils and scientific curiosities.
What can you see at the Campano Mineralogical Museum?
About 3,500 minerals (including the Vesuvius crystals of 1944), meteorites, precious stones, the fossil dinosaur 'Ciro' and a sample of graphene donated by the Nobel laureate André Geim.
Where is it?
At Vico Equense, in a former seventeenth-century convent, in the old centre.
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