Cantonal Museum of Natural History
Cantonal Museum of Natural History is a museum in Lugano, Ticino which is located on Viale Carlo Cattaneo. Cantonal Museum of Natural History is situated nearby to Cantonal Library of Lugano, as well as near the school Palazzo degli Studi.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Opening hours: Tuesday—Saturday 9:00 AM—noon and 2:00 PM—5:00 PM
- Type: Museum
- Description: museum in Lugano (Switzerland)
- Also known as: “MCSN”, “MCSNL”, and “Museo Cantonale di storia naturale”
- Address: Viale Carlo Cattaneo 4, 6901
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Cantonal Library of Lugano and Palazzo degli Studi.
Palazzo dei Congressi
Convention center
Palazzo dei Congressi is a convention center, which is situated 350 metres west of Cantonal Museum of Natural History.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lugano and Cassarate.
Lugano
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Lugano is a lakeside city in Ticino, the Italian-speaking part of southern Switzerland, and is the largest Italian-speaking city in Switzerland and outside Italy.
Cassarate
Suburb
Cassarate is a village on the northern shore of Lake Lugano, to the east of the outfall of the Cassarate River, in the Swiss canton of Ticino. Politically the village forms part of the Castagnola-Cassarate quarter of the city of Lugano, although until 1972 Castagnola-Cassarate was an independent municipality under the name Castagnola.
Molino Nuovo
Suburb
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Molino Nuovo is a quarter of the city of Lugano, in the Swiss canton of Ticino. It lies to the north of the city center, and is the most populous quarter of the city. In 2012, it had a population of 9,258.
Cantonal Museum of Natural History
- Categories: science museum, memory institution, library, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Lugano, Lugano District, Ticino, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.00414° or 46° 0′ 15″ northLongitude
8.96063° or 8° 57′ 38″ eastElevation
281 metres (922 feet)Operator
Cantone TicinoOpen location code
8FRC2X36+M7OpenStreetMap ID
node 5980969228OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yes
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Italian—“Cantonal Museum of Natural History” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “musée cantonal d’histoire naturelle de Lugano”
- French: “musée cantonal d’histoire naturelle de Lugano”
- French: “Musée cantonal d’histoire naturelle de Lugano”
- German: “Kantonales naturhistorisches Museum”
- Indonesian: “Museum Sejarah Alam Kanton”
- Italian: “Museo cantonale di storia naturale di Lugano”
- Italian: “Museo cantonale di storia naturale”
- “MCSNL”
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