Point of interest

The Museum named after Attilio Fedrigo contains fossil material of great beauty and importance. Through several hundred finds from Italy and abroad, it offers a broad view of the living forms on earth, starting from the most distant eras (Paleozoic, over 500 million years ago) up to the Holocene period (a few thousand years ago).

Very important in the collection are the finds such as trilobites, graptolites, orthoceratids from the Primary Era, large ammonites from the Secondary Era, some large gastropods from the Tertiary Era, remains of elephants and other mammals from the Quaternary Era. The specimens, which are certainly significant from an aesthetic and therefore exhibition point of view, are of considerable scientific importance due to their rarity and palaeontological interest.

The exhibition presents only a small part of what Attilio Fedrigo collected during his lifetime but exemplifies palaeontological science in a clear and precise manner. Attilio Fedrigo, born in Negrar di Verona in 1909, for a long time, cultivated a passion for natural science.

From those years onwards, he greatly enriched his naturalistic-paleontological collection not only through personal research in Italy and abroad but also through various exchanges and acquisitions. In 1963, he set up a didactic and scientific exhibition of the finds he had collected over the years, a collection that in 1988 he donated to the Municipality of Sona for the establishment of a municipal palaeontological museum. Unfortunately, his death in 1992 prevented him from realising this worthy aspiration.