The Territorial Paleontological Museum of Asti (Fossil Museum) is managed by the Asti Paleontological Park Authority and is set up in the basement of Palazzo del Michelerio, an ancient building erected in the mid-1500s, in Asti. The Museum houses a collection consisting of cetaceans and more than 15,000 fossil mollusks, which are state property and mainly originate from the Asti area.
Corso Vittorio Alfieri, 381b, 14100 Asti AT, ItaliaThis itinerary offers an initial route that covers general and territorial paleontology, describing the geological periods between the Miocene and the Pliocene. It is followed by a path displaying fossil skeletal remains of Asti cetaceans, both mysticetes (whales) and odontocetes (dolphins), dating back to the Pliocene epoch (between 5 and 2 million years ago) when the entire Po Valley was occupied by the sea.
This itinerary is dedicated to the temporary exhibition "The Leviathan and the Sirens", located on the ground floor of the former Church of Jesus
