The Museum of Physics is a prestigious facility that ranks in the upper half of national science museums in terms of abundance of exhibits, their value and state of preservation. The vast exhibition (several thousand pieces) runs throughout the large gallery on the ground floor of the Physics Department. The original dynamo of A. Pacinotti, the glory of Cagliari Physics, one of the ten inventions that shocked the world, and a working copy of it can be seen. The interactive Physics Experiments section is available to the public. A modern, living museum is a place where people can interact firsthand with experiments and exhibits made available to them. Other spectacular installations include the rotation of our Globe with Sardinia’s largest Foucault Pendulum. A two-volume catalog of the collection of apparatus and instruments from the 1700s and 1800s is available upon request.
