The Botanical Museum is located in the historic center of Padua and is part of the University Museums of the University of Padua. In the Botanical Museum of the University of Padua where you can observe fruits, seeds, woods, models of mushrooms and didactic tables, all material largely collected from the beginning of the nineteenth century. In addition to this, more than 600,000 specimens of dried plants, algae, fungi, lichens and galls are preserved in the Herbarium, internationally recognized with the acronym PAD. In a constantly evolving environment in which an increasing amount of land is used for crops or for construction, in which excessive and often wrong agricultural practices are the cause of the destruction of fragile environments such as freshwater streams, in which there is a progressive and anomalous increase in temperature which involves the displacement (almost a migration) of some species, it is very important to testify what the territory was like, and not just what surrounds us closely, in a not too distant past. This enormous amount of information can be the basis for a possible, and desirable, environmental restoration. Among the functions of the Museum there is also the dissemination thanks to which these objects are not "old and dusty" but represent a source of continuous knowledge and curiosity, important, above all, to stimulate the new generations.