Museo di Fisica
Sapienza museum in the Fermi building of the Città Universitaria, with 19th-century scientific instruments and the Fermi Collection.
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About the museum
The Physics Museum of Sapienza University of Rome was established in 1857 at the wish of Pius IX at the Archiginnasio of Sapienza. With the move of physics to Via Panisperna, around 1880, the collection followed the Institute of Physics and in 1936 it was transferred to the new Città Universitaria, where it is now housed in the Fermi building.
The collections include about six hundred instruments from the 19th and early 20th centuries, organised by theme: mechanics, air pumps, acoustics, electricity and magnetism, optics and spectroscopy. Among the pieces are pendulum clocks, hydrostatic balances, electrostatic machines, galvanometers and spectroscopes.
An important part of the route is the Fermi Collection, a group of instruments and objects that belonged to Enrico Fermi and are linked to the research of the “ragazzi di via Panisperna” (the boys of Via Panisperna). The museum also explains physical phenomena and how they work through its dedicated sections.
Highlights
- Fermi Collection with instruments and objects that belonged to Enrico Fermi
- About 600 scientific instruments from the 19th and early 20th centuries
- Electrostatic machines, galvanometers and spectroscopes
- Sections on mechanics, acoustics, optics and electromagnetism
Permanent exhibition
- Collezione Fermi e strumenti storici di fisica – Historical instruments of mechanics, acoustics, electricity, optics and spectroscopy, and a collection of objects that belonged to Enrico Fermi.
- Founded
- 1857
- Operated by
- Sapienza Università di Roma – Polo museale
- Director
- Adele La Rana
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Getting there & parking
The museum is on the first and third floors of the Fermi building (CU011) of the Department of Physics, in the Città Universitaria.
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Plan your visit
| Guided tours | yes |
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| Good to know | Guided tours are booked through the calendar on the museum’s website or by e-mail. |
