Museo storia naturale di Pisa

Museo storia naturale di Pisa is an Italian natural history museum at Pisa. It is part of the University of Pisa and is now located in Pisa Charterhouse 10 km from the city of Pisa in the comune (municipality)of Calci.

In 1596, Grand Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany established the Museum of Natural History of the University of Pisa, transferring specimens from the Florentine palaces of the Medici, particularly from the Uffizi. This was expanded to serve the natural history faculties of the University of Pisa. Initially, the gallery was in the botanic gardens (Orto botanico di Pisa). The oldest collections in the museum are Niccolò Gualtieri’s shells. (In 1814, the Botanic Garden (directed by G. Savi) was separated from the Natural History Museum (directed by G.Santi) and in 1827, Paolo Savi, assembled more than five thousand zoological specimens which are mostly extant.

Vertebrate collections

The museum contains the osteology collections of Richiardi Sebastiano.

Insect collections

The museum contains insects collected by:

• Édouard Ménétries
• Carlo Giuseppe Gené
• Imre Frivaldszky
• Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean
• Maximilian Spinola
• Carlo Passerini.

References

• Tosi A., 2002. Art and science between neoclassicism and romanticism: the Botanical Garden in the modern age. In: Garbari F., Tongiorgi Tomasi L., Tosi A., Giardino dei Semplici — Garden of Simples: 189–209. Ed. Plus, Pisa.
• Tosi A., 2002. Il Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe. In: AA.VV., Arte e Scienza nei musei dell’Università di Pisa: 313–327. Ed. Plus, Pisa.

External links

• Official website (Italian)
• History of the Natural History Collections in Pisa