The Physics Museum officially came
into being in 1983 thanks to a number
of researchers at the Physics Institute
of the Federico II University of
Naples. An inventory of the collection
was carried out in 1983 and catalogues
were drawn up in 1987.
The Museum, temporarily housed at
the Department of Physical Sciences
is now located at 8, Via Mezzocannone,
in the historical main building
of the university.
It is not only a museum housing
collections, but is also a centre
for research and archives. It also
provides information on the instruments
in the collection. Graduates and
post-graduate students work together
to organise exhibitions, maintaining
a website and developing a database
of the museum’s contents.
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The
Museum is now located in the old
refectory of the Jesuit College,
restored in 2003-2004. The refectory
was designed in c. 1680 by Dionisio
Lazzari, and still has its original
stucco work and boasts a Circumcision
by the sixteenth century Sienese
painter Marco Pino. The painting
was commissioned by the Jesuits
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