{"id":22547,"date":"2020-11-30T11:04:35","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T10:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/arte-e-cultura\/giuseppe-cortesi-geological-museum\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T15:19:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T14:19:36","slug":"giuseppe-cortesi-geological-museum","status":"publish","type":"arte-e-cultura","link":"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/art-and-culture\/giuseppe-cortesi-geological-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Giuseppe Cortesi Geological Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Temporarily closed<\/h3>\n<p>Its in <strong>Santo Spirito Hospital<\/strong>. The museum aims to show organically and didactically the palaeontological remains found in the marine sediments outcropped in this area. The museum activity is addressed mainly to students, thanks to a didactic path developping in the three rooms.<\/p>\n<h3>The rooms<\/h3>\n<p>The<strong> 1st ROOM<\/strong> offers an introduction to paleontology, showing meaningful fossiles of the various geological periods, coming from any part of the world .<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>2nd ROOM<\/strong> is dedicated to the fossiles of the local Pliocene, with remains of cetaceans (whales).<\/p>\n<p>The<strong> 3rd ROOM<\/strong> contains remains of Quaternary fauna and vertebrates. Recently, the Museum was recognised as Museo di Qualit\u00e0 (Quality Museum) by Emilia Romagna region from Istituto per i Beni Artistici, Culturali e Naturali.<\/p>\n<p>The visit to the Museum can be accompanied by other activities such as excursions on the river banks, to the badlands, but also watch documentaries in the dedicated rooms in the Museum.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a guided path created for partially-sighted people, where they can touch copies of fossils from the Museum to study their shape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Its in Santo Spirito Hospital.The museum aims to show organically and didactically the palaeontological remains found in the marine sediments outcropped in this area.The museum activity is addressed mainly to students, thanks to a didactic path developping in the three rooms.The 1st ROOM offers an introduction to paleontology, showing meaningful fossiles of the various geological periods, coming from any part of the world .The 2nd ROOM is dedicated to the fossiles of the local Pliocene, with remains of cetaceans (whales). The 3rd ROOM contains remains of Quaternary fauna and vertebrates. Recently, the Museum was recognised as Museo di Qualit\u00e0 (Quality Museum) by Emilia Romagna region from Istituto per i Beni Artistici, Culturali e Naturali.\u00a0 The visit to the Museum can be accompanied by other activities such as excursions on the river banks, to the badlands, but also watch documentaries in the dedicated rooms in the Museum. There is also a guided path created for partially-sighted people, where they can touch copies of fossils from the Museum to study their shape.\u00a0","protected":false},"featured_media":18717,"template":"","territorio":[935],"categorie_arte_e_cultura":[922],"class_list":["post-22547","arte-e-cultura","type-arte-e-cultura","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","territorio-val-darda-en","categorie_arte_e_cultura-museums-and-galleries"],"acf":{"contatti_iat":[{"contatto_iat":"telephone","valore":"+39.0523.803215"},{"contatto_iat":"email","valore":"info@museogeologico.it"},{"contatto_iat":"website","valore":"https:\/\/www.museogeologico.it\/"}],"location":{"lat":"44.851655","lng":"9.868298","address":"Via Sforza Caolzio presso l'Ospedale Santo Spirito, 29014"},"accessibilita_disabili":"Accessible, with dedicated flights and lifts.","orario":"<p>Temporarily closed<\/p>\n","chiusura_settimanale":"Monday","tariffe":"<p>Admission prices:<br \/>\nEuro 3.50<\/p>\n<p>Reduced prices:<br \/>\nEuro 2,50 (children under 12, adults over 65, soldiers, groups of more than 25 people, teachers visiting<\/p>\n","iat":33740,"localita":33122},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Giuseppe Cortesi Geological Museum - Visit Piacenza<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Geological Museum of Castell&#039;Arquato exhibits marine fossils found in the surrounding areas and other paleontological materials.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/art-and-culture\/giuseppe-cortesi-geological-museum\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Giuseppe Cortesi Geological Museum - Visit Piacenza\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Geological Museum of Castell&#039;Arquato exhibits marine fossils found in the surrounding areas and other paleontological materials.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/art-and-culture\/giuseppe-cortesi-geological-museum\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Visit Piacenza\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-01-28T14:19:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/museo-geologico-Copia-2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/art-and-culture\/giuseppe-cortesi-geological-museum\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/art-and-culture\/giuseppe-cortesi-geological-museum\/\",\"name\":\"Giuseppe Cortesi Geological Museum - Visit Piacenza\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/art-and-culture\/giuseppe-cortesi-geological-museum\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/art-and-culture\/giuseppe-cortesi-geological-museum\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/museo-geologico-Copia-2.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-11-30T10:04:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-01-28T14:19:36+00:00\",\"description\":\"The Geological Museum of Castell'Arquato exhibits marine fossils found in the surrounding areas and other paleontological materials.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/art-and-culture\/giuseppe-cortesi-geological-museum\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/art-and-culture\/giuseppe-cortesi-geological-museum\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/art-and-culture\/giuseppe-cortesi-geological-museum\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/museo-geologico-Copia-2.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/museo-geologico-Copia-2.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":1200,\"caption\":\"Sala delle Balene, Museo Geologico. 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