Overall specimens: 0
Collection Type: Vertebrate Fossils, Invertebrate Fossils
Preservation Type: Storage Indoors
Specimen count: n/a
Specimens in GBIF: 100
Description: The Domenico Dal Lago Collection is a extensive collection of geological findings donated in 1929 by Domenico Dal Lago (1842-1930), a district doctor. Domenico Dal Lago collected a lot of specimens of fossils, rocks and minerals and at the end of his life he decided to donate the collection to the Municipaly of Valdagno with the aim to widespread the geological history of the Agno Valley territory in Vicenza Province. The collection consists of about 12,900 specimens; more than 80% of the collection is paleontological. It contains fossils of marine invertebrates (molluscs, echinoderms, sponges, corals, crustaceans), plants (leaves and fruits), fishes and a little crocodile. In the collection there are 10 type specimens: 7 holotype and 3 paratype. The rest of the collection consists in rocks and minerals. Most of the specimens were collected on the territory of High Agno Valley but some specimens came from other localities in the Vicenza and Verona Provinces. The collection is represented by specimens collected from the middle of 1800 until 1927. For years, the collection was kept in the Manzoni School library in Valdagno, at the disposal of students and professors and anyone interested in looking at it either out of passion or for professional reasons. In 1975, as part of his degree thesis, Professor Paolo Mietto of the University of Padua conducted an in-depth study on the Dal Lago collection, highlighting its scientific importance and laying the groundwork for reorganising and cataloguing each piece, as well as its definitive arrangement. This was a fundamental step that effectively opened a new page for the collection that had remained shut away in the library for half a century. Indeed, on 15 October 1982, the Municipal Council of Valdagno founded and approved the ‘Dr. Domenico Dal Lago’ Museum. A work group made up of historians and amateur palaeontologists was set up, with the support of Professor Mietto himself: with great passion, they studied the layout of the display cabinets, and selected and cleaned the most significant fossils that would have later formed part of the exhibition layout. On 20th April 1995 the Museum opened its doors to the public at Villa Valle in Valdagno, sharing some spaces with the Civic Library; it remained there for four years, until May 1999, when it was transferred to Palazzo Festari, which is still its headquarters today.
Geographic Coverage: Vicenza and Verona Pronces, Mainly High Agno Valley.
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Institution: Museo civico Domenico Dal Lago di Valdagno (DDL)
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Institution: Museo civico Domenico Dal Lago di Valdagno (DDL)
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Institution: Museo civico Domenico Dal Lago di Valdagno (DDL)