The Museum of Natural History was founded in 1891 by the Rector Don Francesco Benedetti;who appointed two skilled;expert teachers Don Bernardino Gavazzeni from Strozza and Don Enrico Caffi from San Pellegrino to take care of the collection;providing for a well-documented and illustrated catalogue.The exhibition of the museum extends over a surface of around 300 square metres.In 1999 the administrator Giambattista Rivellini;faithfully following the conservative criterions of the nineteenth-century which pointed out the correct guidelines for the exhibition of the rarities on show;provided for the re-location of the museum in the original area;though animals;fossils and vegetation were maintained in the appropriate original closets and reliquaries.At first sight;at the entry of the museum;a huge brown bear is of great impact.The bear was captured at Primaluna a small village in Valsassina in 1886 and is of great relevance;since the sample;on show;is one of the latest;well-kept and integral bears captured on the Pre-Alpine area.In a specific room four very precious volumes of the herbarium - collected;illustrated and commented by the late parish-priest of Olate don Luigi Sacchi in 1850 - are still preserved.The unique;precious work is currently open to be consulted for study.Exotic as well as European mammals are on show along the inner aisle;besides two reliquaries with samples of birds (ornithology fauna);a collection of invertebrate mollusks:rare samples of malacology (invertebrate zoology) of different species (about 150) are placed very close to a seal;a turtle and some sea sponges.Exemplary of African fauna as well as European and local one are on display.