Pisa - Finestre sull'Arte

The Museo Storico delle Aviotruppe in Pisa: a journey through the history of Italian military parachuting

Located inside the Gamerra Barracks, the Pisa Airborne Museum is a landmark for all military history enthusiasts and for anyone who wants to learn more about the strategic role and sacrifice of Italian paratroop units. It is a very special, rare muse...
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The Museum of Human Anatomy in Pisa, a journey through the human body among mummies and embalmed heads

University museum collections generally derive their origins from an Enlightenment conception, which changed an encyclopedic approach to knowledge to a specialized one. Guided by this new instance, collections born as Wunderkammer, with the purpose o...
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The image of power. The portrait of Eleanor of Toledo in Pisa.

The most famous image of Eleanor of Toledo, born Leonor Álvarez de Toledo y Osorio, wife of Cosimo I de' Medici and duchess consort of Tuscany, is surely the one painted by Bronzino and now preserved in the Uffizi: the Portrait of Eleonora di ...
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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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