The Paleontological Museum of Roncà was founded in 1973 on the initiative of the Val d'Alpone Paleontological Association Val Nera Group and today collects a collection of several thousand fossils of vertebrates and invertebrates from the Roncà area.

The Museum was created with the aim of educating, especially young people, to love nature and in particular wants to be a means of disseminating geological and paleontological knowledge of the area.

Since 2010, paleontological excavations authorized by the Superintendence have been underway. These researches have made it possible to obtain numerous data on the fossil species of Roncà, which undoubtedly occupies a place of primary importance among the deposits of molluscs of the Cenozoic.

The museum itinerary winds through three rooms: in the one on the ground floor there is the reconstruction of the current natural environment of Roncà while in the other two, located on the first floor, you can see a diorama of the local environment as it appeared 40 million years ago and the most significant fossils of the collection.

1 - ROOM Ground Floor: CURRENT FLORA AND FAUNA

2 - ROOM 1st Floor: FOSSILS
INVERTEBRATES (nummulites, corals)
BIVALVES
GASTROPOD
CEPHALOPODS
VERTEBRATES (fish, reptiles, mammals)
PLANTS (plant remains)

3 - ROOM 1st Floor: PROTOTHERIUM ROOM