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Social Networks

Over time, many people have been sharing pictures of small animals on our Facebook group. The very core of the Museum in on web site, but we use social networks as well, and we are going to upgrade and activate the other platforms too.
Ophraella communa, fam. Chrysomelidae. Italia, Brescia, 25 Aug 2015. Provided by Paolo to children for didactics, but not shot with them.
                        Ophraella communa, fam. Chrysomelidae. Italia, Brescia, 25 Aug 2015. Provided by Paolo to children for didactics, but not shot with them.
In the beginning there are children exploring their school yard...

It all started collecting pictures of insects, spiders, millipedes in the school yard or garden.
Then, we have exchanged those pictures on the internet. Scientific names are international, equal in every part of the world. So here is the VIRTUAL MUSEUM OF SMALL ANIMALS, found and shared by children.

We take and share the pictures!

We do science and build our own platform!

We tell and manage the stories!

Here we are writing our online multimedia book on the small animals we meet!
News!
Staff, Schools & Groups

A staff is ready for questions, answers, meetings, courses on line and in presence. Schools and groups can meet here and share news and informations.
Kids Macro photography & video
Our body and living environment, the real world in which we live, that we can see, hear, touch, smell, know. Life is around us, amazing and worthy of respect, with all the wonder of biodiversity. Technology can help us to watch better, remember, take macro pictures and sounds of our experience and share them worldwide.
And we all are, well based on our real life, senses, emotions, the active makers of the information.
Drawing & Art
Publishing

We generally do not think of it, but every picture we post on a social network is actually "published". Besides, there are naturally also books, videos and professional multimedia and web works!
The Museum History

The Children's Virtual Museum of Small Animals has in fact a long history, and here one can know it.



This Museum is an open laboratory in progress to work together, with pictures and stuff from kids and collaborators from all over the world.
The Museum Halls:
a Children friendly classification
The texts in the Museum are in English, because it is an international project. Many videos are in Italian, because it has been developing mainly in Italy.

The scientific names of animals are the same all over the world!

Here is a message to begin with, in English and Italian.

Stories & Multimedia
Children's Works

Latest update: 15 Dec.2025

 
For Kids, for Teachers, for all People who want to set it up together!
A long history:
Official video 2014
from direct experience in the field
The latest videos on species, Summer 2025, from the playlist
Megascolia maculata
Chrysomela populi
Episyrphus balteatus
Graphosoma lineatum (italicum)
Macroglossum stellatarum
The Museum Halls
A suggestion by Paolo Beneventi!
Ideas towards a Child-friendly Web
Home page
through nations, languages and cultures
Activities in progress
The activities linked to the Museum, although not always continuously, continue over the years
Brescia, Italy 2011
Kaohsiung, Taiwan 2016