Pollino Natural History and Palaeontology Museum

What to see

• The skeleton of an Elephas antiquus italicus found in 1982, from the middle to late Pleistocene (400,000-700,000 years ago), about 4 metres tall and 6 metres long, with tusks of 2.70 metres.
• The remains of a Hippopotamus antiquus, discovered in 2006 in the locality of Calorie.
• Since 2009, a model railway by model maker Giordano Taverna.

How to get there

It is located in Rotonda, in the historic centre: you arrive by car and then continue on foot.

Useful information

• Opening hours are not fixed, so it is best to check with the town hall (Comune).
• In the newer part of town, the Elephant Fountain commemorates the great prehistoric animal.