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RESINA network: Nature in Lazio Museums

1. Author: Lorenza Merzagora - Sistema museale naturalistico RESINA, Regione Lazio
2. Director: Andrès Arce Maldonado
3. Scientific Advisor: Lorenza Merzagora
4. Editor: Andrès Arce Maldonado
5. Photography: Andrès Arce Maldonado
6. Sound: Andrès Arce Maldonado
7. Production: La Siliàn srl per: REGIONE LAZIO, Area Servizi Culturali e Agenzia Regionale Parchi
8. Italy
9. 18 min.
10. 2010

Eight naturalist museums make up the core of the RESINA (REte SIstemica NAturalistica) network of the Lazio Region.
These range from Museums located in urban areas, such as the City Museum of Zoology in Rome, focused on biodiversity, to Museums that interpret and describe their region, like the City Naturalist Museum of the Predestini Mountains, enhancing the local economic activities in an area rich of chestnut trees, or the Museum of Flowers, with visits included in naturalist walks through the surrounding environment.
The territory of Lazio is rediscovered and valorized through Museums: from sea environments, like the Museum of the sea and of the coast in Sabaudia and the Museum of migrations in Ventotene, to museums near rivers, like the Museum of the Tiber, or in the mountains, like the geopaleontological museum of Rocca di Cave or the Geophysics museum of Rocca di Papa, from the top of which the geological history of the surrounding region in a 100-km radius can be studied.
These are lively museums, located in beautiful and often unknown parts of the region, which have acquired multiple roles and functions in time: communicating with a wide audience through interactive courses, activities, and events, valorizing protected areas, describing the local traditions, participating to community life, co-operating with schools.