National Museum Of Natural History
Natural history museum in a French Baroque palace, with birds, fossils, minerals and island habitats.
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This guide to the National Museum of Natural History in Mdina, near Valletta, begins in seventeen twenty-six with a Maltese master builder raising a Parisian-style palace for Grand Master António Manoel de Vilhena. It follows the building through cholera wards, a British sanatorium and a tuberculosis hospital, and asks what a Grand Master's taste for summer houses has to do with Malta's birds and fossils. Best heard standing in the forecourt, facing the main door.
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