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This museum, founded in 1888, offers a great wealth of research about botany, archaeology, and mathematics by Clarence Bicknell, who later donated it to the city of Bordighera. Among the various collections, the most striking is that of rock casts from Mount Bego and the Valley of Wonders.

The museum building museum is made of many rooms that also contain a collection of about 200 butterflies and an ancient herbarium with local plants.

At the entrance of the garden, a centuries-old Ficus magnoloides has literally embedded a palm tree within its roots – a most overwhelming feat that has even managed to threaten the very garden boundary wall.
Walking towards the most beautiful museum, a magnificent wisteria perfectly decorates the small portico; ancient Roman road slabs from Abintilium (Ventimiglia) were used to make the garden even more evocative. Clarence Bicknell was, in fact, able to save many from nearby archaeological digs and a Roman tomb from the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD.

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