The
geopaleontological
museum of Cava Bomba
The Cava Bomba Museum is a complex of industrial archaelogy with 3 kilns used from the late nineteenth century to 1960s for the extraction and the production of lime and concret; it is evidence of a productive activity tipical of the Euganean Hills' evironment of the past. It marks the starting point of the Monte Cinto trial. In the setting of hills, it is a meeting place, a small pearl of the area ideal for a visit between science and nature.
The Museum today
In 2019 the Province of Padua has passed the managment of the Museum to the Cinto Euganeo's municipality, maintaining the economic commitment for all the supplies, without excluding potential additional supports. The Town Management of Cinto is seriously motivated to promote the museum, which it considers a fundamental element for the value appreciation of its area. It will may also count on the collaboration of the Department of Geosciences and the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Padua for the scientific consultation and on GMPE and other cultural associations for some educational and didactic operational aspects.
We are back, stronger than before.
The Museum, finally reopened in 2019 sees the collaboration of:
Municipality of Cinto Euganeo
Province of Padua
Euganean Paleontological Mineralogical Group
Department of Geosciences of the University of Padua
The cooperative Le Macchine Celibi
The expositive indoor areas are three: the geological section (Room A), dedicated to the changes happened in the Euganean Hills in the various geological ages and to fossils found locally and in other places; the mineralogical section entitled to Delmo Veronese (Room B) which collects minerals from Euganean Hills and from all over the world and the section dedicated to the “Da Rio” collection (Room C). The latter is composed of mineral rocks and fossils picked up between the late eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century by the count Niccolò Da Rio, an important literatus and naturalist from Padua.