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The
museum was officially born in 1977 in the restored "Palazzo Verbania", thanks to Piero Astini.
He was the president of the Civic Institute of Popular Culture, and he was able to collect
archaeological material, documents, frescos, with the ideal in order to not disperse
the territorial history . There are three halls: a little art gallery, an archaeological section, a
collection of minerals and fossils. Important the frescos, for example an Our Lady of the milk and a Crucifixion of
the 15th-16th century, but also contemporary works. The hall of mineralogy and paleontology presents
fossils found in the Verbano territory but also extra-European, for example from Africa (550 millions of years ago).
There are then findings of local archaeology, and also from Sahara: axes, arrows, blades and other
Neolithic things.
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