The Museo della Radiologia is located inside The Paolo Giaccone General Hospital in Palermo (Piazza delle Cliniche).
The Museum was founded in the early 1990s by Italian radiologist Adelfio Elio Cardinale, then director of the Radiological Institute of the University of Palermo. As the centenary of the discovery of x-rays approached, Cardinale began to collect tools and documents related to the history of Italian radiology throughout the country. The Museum was inaugurated on December 19951. A new layout of the Museum was set up in 2012, when the official logo was designed and the collection rearranged2.
Today, the Museum contains more than 300 radiological and scientific devices, displayed in six different sections. It is one of the three or four more important in Europe3.
You can also have a virtual visit of the Museum through this link of Google Maps.
- Photos by Luca Borghi ti.supmacinu|ihgrob.l#| (September 2020), courtesy of the Museum’s direction
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Bibliography
- Adelfio Elio Cardinale, Roberto Lagalla, Massimo Midiri, Il Museo della Radiologia, Zacco Edizioni, Palermo 2018, pp. 189