The Gozo Nature Museum , formerly known as the Natural Science Museum , is a museum in Victoria , on the island of Gozo , Malta . Open to public since 1991, the museum is housed in a group of houses in the Cittadella , the oldest part of the city. These houses date back to various ages: the older one, which was an inn, to 1495; the other to the 17th century.
4-730: The Natural Science Museum shows collections "relating to the Island’s geology, minerals, marine life, insects, local habitats and ecosystems" as well as national plants (including the Maltese Rock Centaury ), human and animal evolution. During later years, this building was used as an inn for visitors, and is mentioned in Thomas McGill’s “Handbook, or Guide, for Strangers visiting Malta” of 1839, and described as: an excellent house of entertainment offering clean and comfortable beds and reasonably-priced dinners. During World War II
8-404: A cultivated species in roundabouts. It is quite common in the limits of Wied Babu in the south east of Malta. It was first described by Stefano Zerafa, around 1830, as the only species of the monotypic genus Palaeocyanus . However, around the year 2000, it was transferred to Cheirolophus , in the light of genetic studies done in that year. The name Cheirolophus means hand-crest, referring to
12-495: The Maltese centaury , Maltese rock-centaury or Widnet il-Baħar , is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae . It is endemic to Malta , where it has been the national plant of Malta since 1973. Its natural habitats are cliffs and coastal valleys . It is threatened by habitat loss . It is scarce but widespread in the wild on the western cliffs of Malta, rare on the southern cliffs of Gozo, but frequent as
16-664: The building served as a shelter for families during aerial bombings. The buildings which house the museum are listed on the National Inventory of the Cultural Property of the Maltese Islands . 36°02′48″N 14°14′20″E / 36.0467°N 14.239°E / 36.0467; 14.239 Maltese Rock Centaury Centaurea crassifolia Centaurea spathulata Palaeocyanus crassifolius Dostál Cheirolophus crassifolius ,
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