Aquarium and City Marine Biology Station
Aquarium and City Marine Biology Station
2 Viale Gadio
Milan 20121
Tel: +39 02 88 46 57 50
The construction was built for the external exhibition of 1906 and organised by designer Sebastiano Locati. In Liberty trend, the Station houses forms and decorations of an marine motif in “majolica”. Damaged in
1943, during the war, the construction remains intact cheers to diverse restorations. At the borders of Sempione Park (which reflect the architectural symmetry), rises the Civic Arena. Among the most older in the universe, the marine museum homes thirty-six tanks with 100 species of marine animals: fish, shellfish, mollusks, spiny invertebrates represent the Mediterranean Sea, the Italian fresh-water fauna, and the tropic water beasts. In the posterior gardens, presently under reconstruction, Milanese marine environments have been rebuilt, admitting the surging fountain, the pond, the spring, the marsh, the hollow and the courtyard. The media library and library, committed to marine science, offer ten thousand books, fourteen,five hundred extracts, 718 periodicals, 250 videocassettes, 600 slides, and scholarly collections on fish and mollusks. Institute publishings, scientific diary: “Quaderni della stazione idrobiologica di Milan”. There are particular informative activities prepared for students. Special interest: “Malacologica” Collection with over 35,000 samples. Admittance: free. Presently under restoration, it will be reopened to the public in 2006.
