Museo Paleontologico Rinaldo Zardini

Named after the Ampezzo researcher Rinaldo Zardini, the museum presents a valuable collection of Triassic fossils found in the Cortina d'Ampezzo area, one of the largest collections in existence today.

The museum recounts the extraordinary adventure of life in the tropical seas from which the Dolomites originated. 

Megalodonts, shells of marine invertebrates, corals, sponges and fossils of countless animals bear witness to a distant era when an immense expanse of seawater stretched over the territory of Cortina.

The exhibits, all from the Dolomite area, tell the story of the geological evolution of the Ampezzo valley, 200 million years enclosed in the traces of the earth, and is enriched by a section dedicated to botany.