Museo di Palazzo Poggi, Natural history museum in Via Zamboni, Bologna, Italy.

Museo di Palazzo Poggi is a natural history museum housed in an ornate palace on Via Zamboni in Bologna, displaying collections spanning geography, navigation, physics, chemistry, anatomy, and natural specimens. The exhibitions unfold across decorated halls that reveal how scientific inquiry and artistic craftsmanship were intertwined in the 18th century.

The Accademia delle scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna operated in Palazzo Poggi from 1711 to 1799, founded on the initiative of Luigi Ferdinando Marsili. Over the years it gathered scientific instruments and also art collections, including Ferdinando Cospi's wunderkammer and Ulisse Aldrovandi's 16th-century collection. After closure, the university reopened the palace to the public in autumn 2000, reinstalling the 18th-century finds and instruments.

The palace rooms carry fresco cycles that visitors can still read by subject: on the ground floor Pellegrino Tibaldi painted the Stories of Ulysses and Prospero Fontana the Labours of Hercules, while Niccolò dell'Abate filled the first floor with landscapes, banquets and concerts. The museum's name comes from the Poggi family palace that houses it.

The museum occupies the piano nobile of Palazzo Poggi on Via Zamboni, in the university quarter; the exhibition route runs through the Aula Carducci, the Museo del nono centenario, the Museo aldrovandiano, the Museo marsiliano, the Museo delle navi e delle antiche carte geografiche, the Museo ostetrico "G. A. Galli" and the Museo indiano. The Magna Charta Universitatum is kept in the Sala della Magna Charta. The same building also houses the Museo della Specola and the Museo Europeo degli Studenti, so allow time to plan which sections to see.

The museum houses anatomical wax models crafted by Ercole Lelli, an artist who reproduced human bodies in wax with scientific precision. These models stand as masterworks of medical illustration and reveal how art and anatomy were inseparable in early modern science.