Maugeri Gemellaro Fossil Museum

In 2006, in Galati Mamertino, the separate section of the Maugeri Gemellaro Museum in Palermo was inaugurated, rich in fossil finds testifying to the fauna present on the Nebrodi mountains already in prehistoric times.

The museum takes its name from the two paleontologists Maugeri Patanè and Gaetano Giorgio Gemellaro who, with their study, highlighted the naturalistic importance of Sicily starting from the Rocche Rosse which are located in the territory of Galati Mamertino rich in fossil finds.

Thanks to the discovery of these fossils, which began in the second half of the nineteenth century, it was possible to reconstruct the geological history of Sicily as early as the Mesozoic era. It is also possible to see a cast of a skeleton of Elephas Mnaidrensis , a small elephant that lived in Sicily two hundred thousand years ago.