This activity is carried out by the staff of the Natural History Museum using non-invasive techniques, which aim to restore, as far as possible, the splendour of the museum exhibits while faithfully maintaining the morphological characteristics of the exhibits themselves.
In the central part of the Systematics Gallery, a new showcase was set up containing birds that were cleaned and restored. The design of the large showcase retained the historical style of the showcases already present in the museum but introduced some new features that lighten the visitor’s view.

Particular attention and care was given to the ichthyological collection. This collection consists both of items that appear in the contract signed on 8 May 1820, donated by Luigi Sette to the Museum thanks to the financial intervention of Duchess Maria Luigia (and for this reason named the Maria Luigia collection in her memory), and of exhibits that are not mentioned in the list of fish in the contract and that presumably come from collections donated later. The restoration work on these exhibits, which began about a year ago, aims to bring to light elements of fish fauna dating back to the 19th century that have taken on a uniform brown colouring very different from the living animal and from the original museum exhibit. Tale attività di restauro, oltre che avere valenza scientifica e ostensionale, ha avuto e ha tuttora importanza didattica in quanto è stata oggetto di tirocinio e di elaborato di tesi nell’ambito del Corso di laurea in Scienze della Natura e dell’Ambiente (titolo della tesi: Il restauro delle collezioni museali ottocentesche: conservare il passato proiettato al futuro. Dott.ssa Giada Percaccini, relatore prof C. Menta).
In addition, in order to allow the visitor a comparative view of the museum pieces, the display position of some skeletons (present in a rather crammed manner) in the Skeleton Room was revisited. These have been arranged in correspondence with the corresponding stuffed animal, to allow the visitor and the educational guide to make interesting parallels in comparative anatomy.

The acquisition of the lights for the showcases on the right side of the Gallery will make it possible to give new visibility to the collections, as soon as the working conditions allow the installation of the lights.
While maintaining the Museum’s historical footprint, it is deemed necessary to equip the Museum with multimedia devices that allow visitors to move around the Museum’s halls independently.
To this end, the Museum has planned to acquire multimedia stations in both the Systematics Gallery and the Vittorio Bottego Eritrean Museum. For more than a year, the Museum Director has been involved in projects with schools to develop apps for virtual visits within the University of Parma Museum.