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Minor museums
Little, but at the same time rich and interesting, the so called minor museums, scattered throughout the province of Padua, are not well-known in the traditional tourist circuits. Nevertheless, they preserve extraordinary treasures and hand down the history and culture of the territory of which they are part.
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Sartori International Mask Museum
The only of its kind in the world, the Sartori Mask Museum houses the prestigious works of Amleto Sartori and his son Donato, internationally known artists, creators of masks for the Commedia dell’Arte and theatre generally.
Abano Terme, Villa Savioli – Tel 049 8601642
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Flora and Fauna of the Euganean Hills
The museum is hosted inside Villa Beatrice on the top of Monte Gemola hill. During the 13th c. the building was a convent where Blessed Beatrice D’Este lived. She was a noble young lady who inspired many poets and singers of that age. From the museum you can admire the beautiful surrounding hilly landscape. The museum displays various examples of the rich flora and fauna of the Euganean Hills.
Baone, Monte Gemola – Tel. 0429 647157
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Museum of River Navigation
One of its kind in Italy it celebrates the intense and fervent mercantile activity along the waterways of Battaglia, a small village in the province of Padua which thrived thanks to these activity for more than 7 centuries. The museum keeps more than four thousand articles, including river boats, scale models, historical photos and maps, various items.
Battaglia Terme, Via Ortazzo – Tel. 049 525170
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Museo della Centuriazione Romana
This little museum hosts finds of the Roman age which came to light during excavations in this part of the province of Padua, which still keeps clear evidences of the Roman Centuriazione (grid system).
Borgoricco, Viale Europa 10 – c/o Townhall tel 049 9337930-1
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Museum of the River Bacchiglione – S. Martino Castle
The medieval castle of s. Martino della Vaneza, erected around the year 1000, hosts the Museum of the River Bacchiglione. In the dramatic halls of the castle are displayed medieval, roman and pre-roman finds from the River and Roncajette Canal.
Cervarese s. Croce – tel. 049 9915425
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Cava Bomba Geopalaeontologic Museum
This museum is hosted in a dismissed quarry, where one can go over the palaeontologic history of the Euganean Hills, with the early middle Cretaceous fossils and a rich mineral collections. It is also an interesting example of industrial archaeology, as the quarry was used for the mining industry up to the past century.
Via Bomba, Cinto Euganeo – tel. 0429 647166
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Museum of Flight- St. Pelagio Castle
This medieval complex which is surrounded by a beautiful garden houses the Flight Museum. Its rooms and open spaces host airplanes, airships, balloons, uniforms, engines and aeronautic items. Wide Park with maze.
Due Carrare – via s. Pelagio – tel. 049 9125008
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Longobard Antiquarium
The Antiquarium Longobardo museum is set inside the prestigious Library of the Monselice Castle. It houses a small longobard necropolis coming from the Longobards’ settlement on the Rocca hill of Monselice.
The five tombs, the seven warriors and children bodies with related funeral ornaments form the necropolis, dated back to the first half of the 7th century. The rich funeral ornaments are represented by a spatha (long sword), a scamasax (dagger), some small knives, an umbo (central boss on a shield) and personal objects. The most interesting archaeological find is certainly a small golden cross decorated with animal interwoven patterns.
Monselice, via del Santuario 11 – tel. 0429 72468
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Steam Machines Museum
The Museum of Steam Machines is housed in a refurbished 1950's industrial style building. The museum collection contains mainly fixed or semi-fixed steam engines dated between the late 19th and the early 20th century. These engines were used for mechanized agriculture works and related works, such drainage of marshy lands. The holdings of the museum include also diesel and piston engines machines.
Monselice, via Petrarca 44 – Tel. 0429 783390
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Butterfly Arc and the Fairies Wood
In the Butterfly Arc live more than 400 butterflies. The Fairies wood is a mythological and ecological itinerary where the relationship between man and nature is explored through history, traditions, fantasy and science.
Montegrotto Terme, Via degli Scavi 21 bis – tel. 049 8910189
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International Artistic Glass Museum
More than 500 works by historical master glassmakers from Murano such as Giornao Guarnieri, Umberto del Negro, Venini and the Toso brothers. A room houses archaeological findings from the Roman period.
Montegrotto Terme, via Fermi 1 - tel. 049 8910635
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Museum of ancient streets
The ancient monastery of San Salvaro is home to the Museum of Ancient Streets, which illustrates the local area evolution focusing on the ancient streets pattern. The room dedicated to means of transport hosts old vehicles used by the locals to carry goods and people on land, river and sea routes: wagons, carts, wheelbarrows, river watercrafts and there are also draught animal harnesses. The rooms on the upper floor concern cartography and display items related to professions carried on along the streets in old times, such as tools of sharpeners, blacksmiths, smiths, and so on.
Urbana, loc. San Salvaro – Tel 0429 809130
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Museum of Contemporary Art ‘Dino Formaggio’
The museum displays a collection of paintings and sculptures realized between the 19th cent and nowadays. More than 100 works of art realized by famous Italian and foreign artists such as Medardo Rosso, Francesco Paolo Michetti, Angelo dall’Oca Bianca, Aligi Sassu, Tono Zancanaro, Tito Gasparini, Vilim Svecniak, Gugo Manizer, Julia Lopez, etc.
Teolo, Palazzetto dei Vicari – Tel. 049 9925680
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Museum of the disappeared villages
The Civic Museum of Disappeared Villages displays findings, documents and aerial photographs of some southern hamlets of Padua that, though they sometimes played an important role in the past, have disappeared during the Middle Age because of pestilences, urbanization, drainages, etc.
Villa Estense – Via Municipio, 26 - Tel. 0429 91896
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