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Comprising <strong>over 150,000 items <\/strong>(fossilized animals and plants, rock and mineral samples, geological surveys, scientific instruments, busts, portraits, memorabilia, and archival documentation), the <strong>ISPRA<\/strong> collections provide precious testimony to the effort made by the <strong><em>Italian Geological Survey<\/em><\/strong> and its scholars, who once assigned an essential role to science in developing modern Italy&#8217;s industry in stride with 19th-century thinking, placing human beings and their control of the environment at the center of complex, long-term processes.<\/p>\n<p>Extending over the first floor of the Museum&#8217;s monumental Hall of Science, with the equally prestigious <strong>marble inlay floor by Mario Tozzi done in 1942, painstakingly restored <\/strong>at the center, these collections spotlight a new museology that highlights our planet&#8217;s geological dynamics and stratification, the continuous transformations of territories, and the origin, diversification, and need for coexistence and interaction in all living species. 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