Small Collections Grant

A suitable freezer will be requested; subsequently, the contents of the various Herbaria will be placed in the above-mentioned freezer on weekly shifts and then stored in special cells equipped with camphor as an additional deterrent for new parasites.
For the Giuseppe Marchente collection a specific digitization program will be prepared and the new data will be inserted on the net by a specialist, to give the possibility to carry out new studies and to compare it with other herbaria.
The Herbaria of the Museo Civico of Bassano del Grappa count about 28,000 sheets of various authors of the 19th century, which are housed in a deposit: Giambattista Brocchi is the oldest, Alberto Parolini already a collaborator of Brocchi, Giovanni Montini, Giuseppe Marchente and other minor collections. The Herbarium on which we would mainly intervene was organized in the 70s - 80s of the 20th century by Giuseppe Marchente (1910 - 1997). He was responsible for the recovery of the historical herbaria of the Museo Civico di Bassano del Grappa. He devoted himself on a voluntary basis to the important activity of conservative reorganization of these finds that were abandoned and in decay, returning them deservedly to the attention of the administration and the community.
Despite the work of these scholars, the collections of the Herbaria are still undervalued.