Editing Pavia (section)

=== Museums ===

Pavia possesses a remarkable artistic treasure, a legacy of the city's prestigious past, divided into several museums.
[[File:Sala azzurra1.jpg|thumb|left|One of the rooms of the [[Pavia Civic Museums|Civic Museums]] inside the [[Visconti Castle (Pavia)|Visconti Castle]]]]
The [[Pavia Civic Museums]] (located, in the [[Visconti Castle (Pavia)|Visconti Castle]]) are divided into various sections: Archaeological, which preserves one of the richest collections of Roman glass in northern Italy and important artifacts and archeological finds of [[Lombards|Lombard]] period, such as the [[Plutei of Theodota|plutei of Teodota]] and the collection (the largest in Italy) of Lombard epigraphs, some of which belong to the tombs of kings or queens. Then there is the [[Romanesque art|Romanesque]] and [[Renaissance]] section which exhibits sculptural, architectural and mosaic. The Romanesque collection is very rich, one of the largest in northern Italy, which also preserves important oriental architectural dishes from the Islamic and Byzantine East that adorned the facades of churches and buildings. Works by [[Jacopino da Tradate]], [[Giovanni Antonio Amadeo]], [[Cristoforo Mantegazza|Cristoforo]] and Antonio Mantegazza and [[Annibale Fontana]] are also exhibited. The Civic Museums also house the Risorgimento museum, dedicating particular space to the social, economic and cultural life of Pavia between the 18th and 19th centuries, the collection of African objects collected by [[Luigi Robecchi Bricchetti]] during his explorations and the numismatic collection, which houses more than 50,000 coins, most of them belonging to Camillo Brambilla, which cover a chronological period between the classical Greek issues and the minting of the modern period.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://museicivici.comune.pv.it/site/home.html|title=Home|work=Musei Civici| access-date=4 August 2022}}</ref>

The Pinacoteca Malaspina (which is part of the Pavia Civic Museums) established by the Marquis Luigi Malaspina di Sannazzaro (Pavia 1754– 1834), houses works by important artists of the Italian and international scene, from the 13th to the 20th century, such as [[Gentile da Fabriano]], [[Vincenzo Foppa]], [[Giovanni Bellini]], [[Antonello da Messina]], [[Bernardino Luini]], [[Antonio da Correggio|Correggio]], [[Paolo Veronese]], [[Guido Reni]], [[Francesco Hayez]], [[Giovanni Segantini]] and [[Renato Guttuso|Renato Gottuso]]. The monumental wooden model of the [[Pavia Cathedral|Pavia cathedral]] from 1497 is also exhibited inside the picture gallery.<ref>{{cite web |title=Catalogo|work=Pinacote Malaspina |url=http://malaspina.museicivici.pavia.it/catalogo.html|access-date=4 August 2022}}</ref>

[[File:Museo per la storia dell'università di Pavia12.jpg|right|thumb| [[University History Museum, University of Pavia|University History Museum]], collection of instruments for the study of chemistry and physics, 18th and 19th century, some belonging to [[Alessandro Volta]]]]
The university's museum network is very vast, consisting of the [[University History Museum, University of Pavia|University History Museum]] of the University of Pavia, divided between the Section of Medicine, where anatomical and pathological preparations, surgical instruments are also exhibited (the surgical paraphernalia of [[Giovanni Alessandro Brambilla]]) and life-size anatomical waxes, made by the Florentine ceroplast [[Clemente Susini]] and the Physics Section which houses the physics cabinet of [[Alessandro Volta]] (where hundreds of scientific instruments from the 18th and 19th centuries are exhibited, some belonging to Alessandro Volta).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://museoperlastoria.unipv.it/en/|title=Home|work=Musei Unipv| access-date=4 August 2022}}</ref>

The University's [[Museum of Archeology of the University of Pavia|Museum of Archeology]] was established by Pier Vittorio Aldini in 1819 and houses prehistoric, Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan (including a collection of clay votive offerings donated by Pope [[Pope Pius XI|Pius XI]]) and Roman (some from [[Pompeii]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archeologia.unipv.eu/homepageeng/|title=Museum of Archeology| work=Musei Unipv| access-date=4 August 2022}}</ref>

The [[Natural History Museum, Pavia|Natural History Museum]] of the University (Kosmos), housed inside [[Palazzo Botta Adorno]], is one of the oldest in Italy, it was in fact founded by [[Lazzaro Spallanzani]] in 1771 and which preserves a naturalistic heritage of high scientific and historical value, including nearly 400,000 finds divided between the collections of zoology, comparative anatomy and paleontology.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://museokosmos.eu/en/|title=Home|work=Museo Kosmos| access-date=4 August 2022}}</ref> 
Then there is the Golgi Museum, located in the same environments in which both [[Camillo Golgi]] and his students worked, rooms and laboratories that preserve both the original furnishings and the scientific instruments of the time, in order to allow the visitor to enter inside a 19th-century research center;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://museocamillogolgi.unipv.eu/homepageeng/|title=Golgi Museum|work=Museo Camillo Golgi| access-date=4 August 2022}}</ref> while the Museum of Electrical Technique, built in 2007, illustrates the history of electrical technology within five sections.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://museotecnica.unipv.eu/home-eng/|title=Museum of Electrical Technology|work=Museo Tecnica| access-date=4 August 2022}}</ref> 
[[File:Museo diocesano pavia9.jpg|thumb|[[Diocesan Museum of Pavia]], Sicilian-Arab master, crosier, ivory (12th century)]]
Then come the Museum of Chemistry, that of Physics<ref>{{cite web |url=http://musei.unipv.eu/museo-di-chimica-fisica/|title=Museo di Chimica e Museo di Fisica|work=Musei Unipv| access-date=4 August 2022}}</ref> and the Museum of Mineralogy, founded by Lazzaro Spallanzani.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://musei.unipv.it/Mineralogia/|title=Museo di Mineralogia|work=Musei Unipv| access-date=4 August 2022}}</ref>

Next to the [[Pavia Cathedral|Cathedral]], inside the crypt of the ancient cathedral of Santa Maria del Popolo (11th century), is the [[Diocesan Museum of Pavia]], inaugurated in 2023, which collects silverware and liturgical objects (among which a crosier in elephantine ivory carved, painted and gilded made by a Sicilian workshop by the hand of Arab craftsmen and dating back to the end of the 12th century), sculptures and paintings, such as the panel of the ''Madonna della Misericordia'' by [[Lorenzo Fasolo]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Diocesi di Pavia |title=Museo diocesano |url=https://www.diocesi.pavia.it/museo-diocesano/ |website=diocesi.pavia.it |date=24 June 2019 |access-date=4 February 2023}}</ref>