Pisa - Finestre sull'Arte

Signs of Genius: the Museum of Graphics in Pisa.

The University ofPisa is the holder of an extraordinary cultural and scientific heritage, which the Athenaeum has amassed over its very long history, dating back at least to 1343, the year it was officially established, although according to some his...
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The history of the long relationship between man and animal in the Anatomical Veterinary Museum of Pisa

When Caspar Friedrich Neickel published his treatise Museography in 1727, sanctioning for the first time the use of the term for museological sciences, he meticulously listed the museums, studies and collections found in Europe in the extensive direc...
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Between art and science, the Botanical Museum of the University of Pisa.

Heirs to immense cultural and scientific heritages, university museums are called upon in our contemporary times to face the age-old problem of variegated collections, made up of objects that are not easy to read, pertaining to sectorial fields of em...
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Treasures from Wunderkammer: the skull with coral from the Museum of Natural History in Pisa

The skull with coral is one of the most famous and at the same time most fascinating artifacts in the Natural History Museum of Pisa, which is housed at the Certosa di Calci. The skull, presumably dated to a period between the 16th and 17th centuries...
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The University of Pisa's Gipsoteca d'Arte Antica, a collection of classical statues in a church

One of the most fascinating and least known places of Pisa's cultural heritage: it is the Gipsoteca di Arte Antica , which, together with theAntiquarium, is part of theUniversity of Pisa's Sistema Museale di Ateneo: an institution that combines histo...
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Administrative documents on pottery from ancient Egypt: the ostrakas of Oxyrhynchus

The Egyptological Collections of theUniversity of Pisa, part of the Athenaeum Museum System, preserve a most precious treasure for the study of Egyptian society: they are the ostrakas of Ossirinco, which represent an extraordinary body of historical,...
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Between history and the avant-garde, Enrico Cagianelli's Umbrian Nativity.

There was a time in the history of Italy when putting up a Christmas tree was a custom looked upon with suspicion: it was the 1930s, and Fascism was concerned with discouraging what is perhaps today the most beloved Christmas decoration, on the groun...
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The first pc in history: the Olivetti Programma 101, an Italian masterpiece of engineering and design

Among the display cases at the Museo degli Strumenti di Calcolo inPisa, one of the institutes of theUniversity of Pisa's Sistema Museale d'Ateneo , it is possible to come across an extraordinary relic from the history of computing, Olivetti's Program...
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