Museums

The University of Pavia possesses an exceptional heritage of cultural assets, accumulated and preserved throughout its long history. Important collections, of historical-scientific interest, unique in their kind: they are not made up of pieces acquired randomly, but have grown over time, parallel to the development of teaching and scientific research in their respective fields.

Thanks to these collections and their correspondence with the volumes preserved in libraries and archives, it is possible to reconstruct the history of Italian and not only Italian technical-scientific thought.

Museums are usually free to access to UNIPV students.

The following collections are currently closed to the public but are accessible to scholars by appointment.

A variety of devices, the oldest of which date back to the early 20th Century. There is a particular focus on spectroscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance.

Mathematics Collection

Via Ferrata, 5, 27100, Pavia

Tel: +39 0382 505600

Email: collezioni.matematica@unipv.it

Collection of mathematical models, among the most important of their kind in Italy. They date back to the end of the 19th century. There are more than 160 pieces including Pascal’s Intergraph and the famous “Beltrami cap”.

Physiology Collection

Via Forlanini, 6, 27100, Pavia

Tel: +39 0382 984707

A collection of instruments used is physiological research from the foundation of the Insitute of Physiology by Eusebio Oehl in 1860, to the years after WWII.

Histology and Embryology Collection

Via Forlanini, 10, 27100, Pavia

Tel: +39 0382 984707

A collection of material used for teaching and research including embryological models and microscopes for the first half of the twentieth century.

Catteneo Anatomy Collection

Via Forlanini, 8, 27100, Pavia

Tel: +39 0382 987647

Email: anatomia@unipv.it

Created at the end of the eighteenth century, this collection includes osteology, angiology, embryology, splanchnology, esthesiology, neurology and topographical anatomy.