COLLECTIONS (links redirect to other parts of the website)
"Relevance" is the geographical scale at which similarly-sized collections may probably be found. Personal collections may be deemed irrelevant.
Scope (LINK) External Repositories Size Relevance
1945-1955 American Aircraft Photographs NONE Around 300 8"x10" photographs National
Archaeology (Stone Tools) NONE Around 200 stone tools, mostly small Local
Bicycles NONE Five bicycles Personal
Car Models: Le Mans 1970 NONE Seven models Local
Car Models: Matchbox Models NONE Around 110 models Regional
Car Models: Record Cars NONE 23 models Regional
Dinosaur Miniatures NONE Around 80 miniatures Regional / National
Entomological Boxes NONE Around 70 insects (exhibit boxes) plus a few tens more (study) Local
Foraminifera Cesare Brizio page on Foraminifera.eu Several hundreds glued specimens for photography Regional / National
Macrophotography (Arthropoda) Cesare Brizio page on Tolweb.org
Cesare Brizio page on INaturalist
Around 3300 35mm slides (devolved to a museum)
Between 2000 and 3000 digital pictures (Tolweb, iNaturalist, personal collection)
Regional / National
Microscopes NONE Four microscopes and two macroscopes Local
Mini-Chickens NONE Around 200 miniatures Regional
Nature Recordings Cesare Brizio page on Xeno-canto.org
Orthoptera Sounds of Italy Project on INaturalist
A few hundreds, covering 55 species of Orthoptera, 9 species of Cicadas, 2 species of Heteroptera, 12 species of Amphibians, 29 species of Birds National
Neritidae shells NONE Several hundred of specimens, between 25 and 30 species Regional
Oliva shells NONE Around 1400 specimens, covering around 140 species National
Other shells NONE Around 350 species (a very few of which covered by the link on the left) Local