Third hall
The third room is reserved for the other significant private collection of the Museum, that of Paolo De Simone, also a passionate naturalist, graduated in agriculture and moved to Città della Pieve in 1886 with the Marchesa Vittoria Spinola, daughter of Vittorio Emanuele Il, with which shared choices and activities in the agri-food sector.
Lost biodiversity
The display cases in this room show 5 entomological boxes, a seeds library (collection of vegetable seeds and plants of food and pharmacological interest), a xylotheque (collection of sectioned wood of arboreal and shrubby plants) of various origins.
On the displays there are some taxidermied vertebrates, a very limited sampling compared to Paolo De Simone's original collection.
The title of the showcase located in this room: lost biodiversity, draws attention to the risk faced by the entire botanical and zoological heritage, since in 10,000 years, through agriculture and breeding, man has selected and cultivated a great variety of wild plants and animals, "domesticating" them, creating many local species capable of adapting and surviving to different types of soil and climate, but with the advent of industrial agriculture and breeding and monocultures, many important species risk extinction.
In the third room there is a touch-screen with historical aspects of the Val di Chiana Reclamation Consortium
