{"id":1130,"date":"2023-02-01T10:23:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T10:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museoscienzebrescia.it\/?page_id=1130"},"modified":"2026-02-18T11:12:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T11:12:22","slug":"botany-collections","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/museoscienzebrescia.it\/en\/collections\/botany-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Botanical collections"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Botanical Collections<\/h1>\r\n

\r\n The Museum\u2019s botanical collections (Herbarium HBBS, Herbarium Brixiensis) include about 80,000 samples of vascular plants, mosses, lichen algae and mushrooms. They have been collected from the 17th century to present time and they come from different places: the province of Brescia, Italy, Europe and other continents. <\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n\n\n

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Herbarium<\/h3>\n

The herbarium is divided in:<\/p>\n

– historical herbaria, realized between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries by several botanists: Elia Zersi, Agilulfo Preda, F. Von Mueller, Angelo Ferretti Torricelli, Montini family, Nino Arietti, Valerio Giacomini;<\/p>\n

– general herbaria of mushrooms and vascular plants, that have continuously been incremented thanks to the collections of some researchers, members of the Scientific Associations that collaborate with the Museum (Centro Studi Naturalistici Bresciani, Circolo Micologico G. Carini, Associazione Botanica Bresciana<\/em>). These associations are pivotal for their studies on the flora of Brescia.<\/p>\n

In addition to the biological collections, particular note should be made of the wax mushroom collection created in the second half of the nineteenth century by Andrea Maestri, a renowned wax modeller from Pavia.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n

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Historical nucleus<\/h3>\n

The historical core of the botanical collections originates from the donation of the University of Brescia in 1949 and from the collection of Valerio Giacomini, an internationally renowned botanist, dating to 1984.<\/p>\n

These include the classic herbaria of Richiadei, known as the first herbarium of Brescia and dating back to 1623, the herbarium of the botanical garden of Padua (1677), the herbarium Gorno (1808) containing plant species grown in the botanical garden of Brescia.<\/p>\n

Moroever, the herbarium of Elia Zersi, mainly realized in Brescia in the second half of the nineteenth century, shows the transition from the classic herbaria (lacking indications of collection localities) to the modern ones which make it possible to trace the place of origin of the specimens.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n

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