The Museum of Speleology and Karst "Alberto Parolini" was founded in 1994 by the will of the Venetian Speleological Federation and the Municipality of Valstagna, with the desire to make the general public, who every year visit the nearby caves of Oliero, more sensitive to the problems of the protection of groundwater resources and the importance of the research carried out by speleologists, who are able to provide valuable data of a naturalistic and environmental nature.
But the museum was also created with the intention of making it a reference point for Venetian speleologists. A place where the knowledge acquired in years of study and exploration can be combined and, at the same time, from which new stimuli to continue research can be drawn. The museum was born with a purely educational purpose - communicative, as evidenced by the installations realized inside: an interactive plastic, dioramas, aquariums and panels are integrated to provide the visitor with a pictureof the karst world, of speleology and the Oliero Caves as complete as possible. Such a museum can not be a museum - archive, but lends itself to continuous updates, as the progressions in the cave offer the opportunity to have new reliefs and new information on the karst environment. The new installations contribute, among other things, to make communication with the public, mostly schoolchildren, increasingly effective and stimulating.
Inside the museum there are aquariums and the amphibian
The wetlands of our territory: amphibians and fish in their natural environment. Immersive path in the world of slow and lotic waters to discover the species that populate the wetlands. Learn to recognize them, contextualize them, respect them. Identify their biological and social habits through large river and amphibian aquariums designed for teaching. The presence of a rare and characteristic amphibian urodelo, the axolotl, enriches the knowledge of these magical environments.
