Esapolis - Living Museum of Insects

This Esapolis Museum is perfect for lovers of these little creatures, including children who will have an entire area dedicated to them, Insettolandia, which offers games and educational activities, while everyone else will be able to find multimedia files and interactive activities. The museum's collections, preserved in antique showcases, are divided into various thematic sections, which show bees, silkworms, spiders, scorpions.

Esapolis is the first large insectarium in Italy and is the result of a fruitful collaboration between the Province of Padua and Butterfly Arc. Esapolis was built after the major restoration of an important building from the early 1900s that housed the most important national bacological station.

The latter is still part of the complex; is located in a building located at the rear of the main building and is an important assistance, conservation and research body of the CRA (Center for Agricultural Research) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, which maintains and studies a huge heritage, over a hundred races of silkworms.

The activity of this bacological station, historically one of the most important in the world, dates back to the end of the 19th century, and the historical collections of instruments, tools, books and above all of silkworm breeds from all over the world are now part of the Esapolis Museum. .

These collections are currently among the most important in the world, so much so that they also receive constant attention from the Chinese. China, which is the historical homeland of the silkworm and the largest silk producer in the world, with the National Silk Museum of China in Hangzhou, together with distinguished scientists, professors and researchers of prestigious national and international universities, often come into contact with the curators and researchers of Esapolis.

The collections, presented in antique and valuable furniture and display cases, are already reason enough to plan a visit to the Museum.

If the historical collections and the important building are the basis of the Museum, its exhibition path is projected in multiple directions that include important and numerous living exhibits that include the micro mega world of insects, arachnids and many other small beings that form the most large animal biomass of our planet.

In Esapolis, the visitor is not a simple observer of the elements present, but the actor who is the protagonist of more or less direct interactions. In addition to the permanent exhibitions listed below, other exhibitions vary and evolve over time (such as photographic exhibitions, sculptures and various other displays).

Esapolis will captivate you through the continuous stimulation of the senses and mind with modern technological installations and interactive laboratories.

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