Naturalistic museology

The first national headquarters of ARCA and the first civic museum that the association supported and supported in many activities was, from 1982 to 1985, the Civic Museum of Natural History of Salento in Calimera (LE). In 1982, ARCA also founded and financed the first wildlife recovery center and for sea turtles and cetaceans for the Puglia Region. In the following years, it established the first sea turtle center of Basilicata in Policoro (MT) and of Sicily in collaboration with the University of Messina Faculty of Zoology in Ganzirri (ME)

From 1985 to 2002 he founded the Civic Museum of the Po Delta in Ostellato (FE). He also established the first wildlife recovery center (CRAS) in Ferrara. Also in the province of Ferrara, ARCA gave a decisive contribution together with the well-known ornithologist Fabio Perco, to the Provincial Stork Center in the Oasi delle Vallette in Ostellato. To this must be added the start and implementation of numerous other reintroduction or repopulation projects such as the Grey or Wild Goose Project. In this period, numerous recovery centers and training courses were organized by ARCA throughout the province.

From 2002 to 2025 ARCA founded and managed the Civic Museum of Natural History of Jesolo (VE), raising the aforementioned structure to a national level for activities and visitor attendance. The Civic Museum of Jesolo has for years exceeded 30,000 attendances of schoolchildren and summer GREST of all levels and grades, to which significant numbers of tourists must be added during the summer period.

The synergic collaborations and activities carried out in close collaboration with the major Italian and European universities and with the regional department of culture and public education have been decisive. In recent years the ARCA Association with its qualified staff and museum curators has allowed the establishment or development of several new structures:

The Civic Museum of Aspromonte in Cittanova (RC)

The Civic Naturalistic Museum of Cisano di Bardolino (VE)

The Civic Ornithological Museum of Mazzara del Vallo (TP)

From 2025 to today he founded and manages the Naturalistic Museum Center called "City of Science of Salento". These are important exhibition spaces spread throughout the municipality of Botrugno (LE) that house important Italian scientific and historical collections as well as prestigious Italian and internationally important museum sections on dinosaurs and the ice age.