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.

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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

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Cantonal Library of Lugano and Palazzo degli Studi.

Cantonal Library of Lugano

Library

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Palazzo degli Studi

School

Photo: Cristian Bianchi, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Palazzo degli Studi is a school.

Palazzo dei Congressi

Convention center

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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″ north

Longitude

8.96063° or 8° 57′ 38″ east

Elevation

281 metres (922 feet)

Wheelchair access

yes

Operator

Cantone Ticino

Open location code

8FRC2X36+M7

OpenStreetMap ID

node 5980969228

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

GeoNames ID

10286239

Wikidata ID

Q3329515

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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”

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