Announcements - FROM AMMONITE TO AMMONIA: THE HISTORY OF FORAMINIFERAL MICROPALEONTOLOGY THROUGH THE COLLECTIONS OF THE GIOVANNI CAPELLINI GEOLOGICAL MUSEUM (BOLOGNA, ITALY)

The 14 rooms of the Giovanni Capellini Museum of the University of Bologna house one of the most important fossil collections in Europe in a substantially unaltered layout of late 19th Century, which makes it a must-visit museum in Bologna. The Museum was the venue of the Second International Geological Congress in 1881 and here was also founded the Italian Geological Society. Recently, a permanent exhibition was set up to celebrate the Museum's unique micropaleontological legacy. The exhibition is housed in six large showcases at the ground floor and allows visitors a journey into the history of foraminiferal micropaleontology, from the discovery of the first microfossils, which took place a few miles from the Museum in the early 18th Century, to the first half of the 20th Century when micropaleontology reached a leading role in Earth Sciences.