The Friulian Museum of Natural History is located in the historic center of the city of Udine. The Museum was inaugurated in 1866 as a naturalistic section of the Civic Museums by the will of Giulio Andrea Pirona. Until the 1950s, the rich collections were mainly preserved in the Natural History Cabinet of the Royal Technical Institute “A. Zanon ". Only in 1983, following a restructuring and rearrangement of the rooms, was the Museum inaugurated in the new headquarters of Palazzo Giacomelli. Since 2016 the Museum has its official headquarters in the Ex Macello di Via Sabbadini. The Museum houses several thousand naturalistic finds from the Friuli area. Many of the preserved artifacts are part of historical collections of great interest. In many cases these are collections of finds of considerable scientific importance. The exhibition itinerary is divided into different sections: mineralogical and petrographic, geo-paleontological, paleontological and anthropological and botanical, zoological. One of the most significant collections is that of Erbaria "Gortani" which includes finds of local origin, such as Carnia for example. The Herbarium has enormous scientific and historical value. The largest collection is the zoological one, consisting of 620,000 invertebrate finds and 18,000 vertebrates. The museum houses a library and media library specializing in natural history open to the public.