The malacologico museum draws its origins from the passion of its owners for the travels and the shells. All it had beginning with a simple business activity them, in 1975, dedicated to the sale of souvenirs and in particular to the sale of shells. Shells that with passing of the years have been acquired and collections during the numerous travels in exotic countries like the Philippines, the Vietnam etc the commerce of the shells little little has carried to the more and more beautiful and rare exemplary search, and to increase one collection of little hundreds of pieces to various migliaia. In 1984 the business activity them is transformed, comes inaugurated the first malacologico museum in Scialara locality. In that period the museum was one of the little attractions of Vieste, the income was to payment and found a reply of approximately 30 mila annual presences. To equal step with the evolution of the tourism to Vieste, the museum began to lose blows, the free income divenne, and beyond to the museum it instituted to its inside also the sale of shells, suppellettili and monili rigorously of material gained from analogous shells, corals and. After 10 years from its opening, thanks also to the acquired experience from its owners in several the countries visit to you, where works as museums autogestiti, the museum is successful to having a number of equal annual visitors to approximately 300 mila, with returns in a position to being able to guarantee its self-sustainment. In 1995 the museum comes transferred in via Pola, where it is found currently. Initially it contained 4600 exemplary, hour it exposes approximately 12500, coming from exemplary from every part of the world, acquires some to you on ordinazione or on the place, near local retailers it specializes to you in the collection and the working of the shells. In particular the Philippines are the greater fornitrici of malacologico material, shells of the place or imported from other Asian countries us. The same lampadari that are found inside of the museum are made in the Philippines and realize to you in nacre. The owners of the museum, for giving greater pregio to their collection, have extended the exposure of the shells to that one of shell fossils. Tutt'ora is in negotiations in order to enrich ulteriorly this last section of the museum, in reperire exemplary coming from fossils from Africa and in particular from the Madagascar and Morocco.

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