Sassari, Physics Collection

The collection includes about 150 educational devices and laboratory and experimental instruments, related to the fields of Optics, Electromagnetism, Mechanics and Thermology. The collection, deriving from the ancient teaching laboratory of the Faculty of Medicine, “had been studied, classified, sometimes reassembled” by Professor Giuliano Bellodi, a scholar of ancient physics equipment from the University of Pavia, who had been, for this purpose, for some time in Sassari in 1989, on behalf of Prof. del Scannicchio. As for the founding of the Physics Cabinet and the arrival of the first instruments in Sassari, the Inventory for the years 1882-1936, relating to 1723 instruments and books, provides useful data for historical reconstruction. In addition, some documents, preserved in the University's Historical Archive, indicate an exceptional and munificent donation arranged by King Carlo Felice in August 1831.

Why it is important to visit it
In addition to educational devices and laboratory and experimental instruments, related to the fields of Optics, Electromagnetism, Mechanics and Thermology, the collection has an additional collection of instruments from the fifties of the twentieth century, which testifies to the evolution of technologies during the second post-war period.