Vespucci meets… the Natural Sciences

A seminar on the 150 years of connections between Italy and Singapore, through the lens of historical maritime journeys, legacies of naturalists, and scientific collaboration. Old ships such as the Magenta and Vettor Pisani together with scientists such as Odoardo Beccari collected specimens, artefacts and data on their journeys. Many of these are still found in Italian institutions after more than one and a half centuries.