Sassari, Museum of the History of Agriculture and Agronomic Collection

The Museum of the History of Agriculture, integrated into the Department's Agronomic Collection, consists of a few hundred items, once or still in use as educational series or study and research tools, acquired since the birth of the Faculty of Agriculture in 1946, including: analytical scales, microscopes, collection of meteorological instruments, collection of cereals, collection of fertilizers, collection of models related to weaving, collection of educational boxes, small equipment, plus a collection of all open, in an area of 1600 square meters (Azienda Sperimentale Agraria, Fraz. Ottava, SS), of equipment referring to the beginning of the first half of the 20th century (tractors, threshers, presses, plows); meteorological equipment, various instruments.
The collections are located in Institutes and Departments, sometimes still playing a role today in the field of research and teaching (for example the Herbarium, or the Entomological Collection). Currently, this historical and scientific heritage is merged into the online Museum of the University of Sassari.

Why is it important to visit it
The museum, together with the Anatomical, Botanical, Entomological, Physics, Zoological, Herbarium, Herbarium, and Aurelio Serra Mineralogical Museum, constitute the cultural heritage of the University of Sassari, formed, starting from the first decades of the 19th century, by the work of illustrious teachers or by the stratification of subsequent acquisitions.