Turin Museum of Natural History

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Turin Museum of Natural History (Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino, MRSN) is a natural history museum in Turin, Italy. It opened in 1978 to house the natural history collections of the University of Turin and other donated or project-based collections. It is located at 36 Via Giolitti, in a 17th-century building that used to be the San Giovanni Battista hospital, built by Amedeo di Castellamonte. The museum has sections for zoology, entomology, botany, minerals, geology and paleontology, plus a specialist library and an exhibition centre. The director is Marco Chiriotti. Website: www.mrsntorino.it/cms/