Projects

The Museum of Veterinary Medicine is engaged in numerous projects to enhance and disseminate scientific knowledge. These projects range from participation in thematic exhibitions to the loan of specimens for exhibitions, not to mention collaborations with other institutions and educational activities. Each project represents an opportunity to make the Museum’s heritage known and to stimulate curiosity and interest in veterinary medicine, zoology, and animal anatomy.

Chronological list of loans, and various past and ongoing activities.

21/03/2017 – 31/06/2017
Exhibition EXTINCTIONS. Stories of animals threatened by humans.
Botanical Garden of the University of Padua
Loan made: A specimen of Loggerhead Sea Turtle Caretta caretta

08/10/2016 – 26/02/2017
Exhibition: Dinosaurs. “Giants of Argentina”
San Gaetano Cultural Center, Padua
Loan made:

  • A Sperm Whale Mandible, Physeter macrocephalus
  • A Buffalo Skull, Syncerus caffer
  • A Dog Skull, Canis lupus familiaris
  • A Nutria Skull, Myocastor coypus
  • A Turtle Skull, Caretta caretta

    08/12/2016 – 11/12/2016
    Guided workshops
    MUSME Padua
    Loan made:

    • A Skull belonging to the species Tursiops truncatus
    • A Baleen belonging to the species Balenoptera physalus
    • A heart/lung complex belonging to the species Bos taurus

    11/06/2016 – 04/06/2017
    Exhibition FISH? NO THANKS, WE ARE MAMMALS! A Short Natural History of Cetaceans
    Civic Museum of Natural History of Ferrara
    Loan made:

    • A Skull belonging to the species Ziphius cavirostris
    • A Baleen belonging to the species Physeter macrocephalus