The Civic Museum of Palaeontology and Palaeo-ethonology of Maglie (Lecce, Puglia, Italy), established in 1960 by the Speleological Group of Salento, a moral institution set up in 1955 in Maglie, was recognized by Interministerial Decree in 1965 as a non-government Minor Museum.
Strongly supported by the Italian Institute of Human Palaeontology, represented by Gian Alberto and Alberto Carlo Blanc, the Museum was the natural result of a long research on the territory, conducted by some local enthusiasts and Italian experts among which the two Blanc, Antonio Lazzari, Paolo Graziosi, Antonio Mario Radmilli, Giuliano Cremonesi and Decio de Lorentiis.