Museo Paleontologico e dell’ Origine del Territorio “Attilio Fedrigo”

The Paleontological Museum, dedicated to the memory of the collector Attilio Fedrigo, born in Negrar di Verona in 1909, represents a vast collection of fossil specimens from Italian and foreign origins, ranging from the earliest eras (Paleozoic, over 500 million years ago) to the Oligocene period (a few thousand years ago).

Of significant importance within the collections are specimens such as: trilobites, graptolites, orthoceratids from the Primary Era; large ammonites from the Secondary Era; some large gastropods from the Tertiary; remains of elephants and other mammals from the Quaternary Era. The specimens have a notable scientific significance both for their rarity and for their paleontological interest.

The exhibition presents only a small part of what Attilio Fedrigo collected throughout his life, but it exemplifies paleontological science in a clear and precise manner. The Veronese collector long nurtured a passion for natural sciences; at the age of forty, he began to devote himself to entomological and malacological collecting, although his main interest was always linked to paleontological sciences. From those years, he significantly enriched the naturalistic-paleontological collection, not only through personal research in Italy and abroad but also through various exchanges and acquisitions. In 1963, having settled permanently in Sona, he set up in a room of his own house an exhibition of the specimens he had collected over the years for educational and scientific purposes, a collection that in 1988 he donated to the Municipality of Sona for the establishment of a municipal paleontological museum.