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Museo Nazionale del'Antartide 'Felice Ippolito' - Earth sciences
| Address: | Centro Interuniversitario Genova - Siena - Trieste, Universita' di Siena, Via Laterina 8, I-53100 Siena |
| E-mail: | mna@mna.unisi.it |
| Fax: | +39-0577-263-890 |
Museo Nazionale del'Antartide 'Felice Ippolito' - Life sciences
| Website: | www.mna.it |
| Address: | Centro Interuniversitario Genova - Siena - Trieste, Palazzina Milo, Porto Antico, Genova |
| E-mail: | tesoro@publinet.it |
Museo Nazionale della Montagna "Duca degli Abruzzi"
| Website: | www.museomontagna.org |
| Address: | Via Giardino 37, I-10131 Torino |
| Telephone: | +39-11-6604104 |
| Fax: | +39-11-6604622 |
| Year of foundation: | 1874 |
| Collections: | Devoted to the history of mountaineering but also includes artefacts and documents relating to the Duke of Abruzzi's Arctic expedition of 1899-1900 and an Antarctic photographic archive |
| Publications: | <em>L'avventura Antarctica: immagini e storia</em> (1990) |
Museo Polare di Fermo
| Address: | Istituto Geografico Polare Silvio Zavatti, Villa Vitali, Viale Trento 29, I- 63023 Fermo (AP) |
| Telephone: | +39-734-226166 |
| Fax: | +39-734-224170 |
| Year of foundation: | 1945 |
| Collections: | Small collection of Arctic and Antarctic artefacts chiefly collected on expeditions organized by Istituto Geografico Polare to Antarctica (1959), Rankin Inlet (1961 and 1967), Lapland (1962), East Greenland (1963), and Repulse Bay (1969). Also some materials from the Arctic expeditions of the Duke of Abruzzi (1899-1900), Nobile (1926, 1928), and others |
| Publications: | <em>Il Polo</em> (1945-, 4pa) |
Museo Storico-Aeronautica Militare
| Address: | I-00062 Vigna di Valle (RM) - Aeroporto |
| Fax: | +39-6-99801152-55-56-57 |
| Year of foundation: | 1977 |
| Collections: | The Padiglione Nobile within this museum is the main depository for artefacts relating to Nobile's two polar expeditions in the dirigibles <em>Norge</em> (1926) and <em>Italia</em> (1928), including expedition relics, airship models, a copy of the "Red tent" and a replica mooring mast. A model of the pilot's cabin of the airship Italia N-4 will be ready for display in 1996 |
| Publications: | <em>Umberto Nobile</em> (Ferrante, 1986) |