Itinerary edited by UNIVERSITY OF SIENA 
The history of the teaching of Physics in Siena begins around the year 1250 (or perhaps before).
Since the first half of 18th century, the necessity to have available laboratories of Physics with the most modern equipment becomes imperative for Universities . The lab of Physics, also called Physics' Theater, was replaced during the XIX century by the more well known and richer in tools University Museum.
In 1864 the Siena Laboratory of Physics was complemented by the Meteorological Observatory gradually equipped by more refined instrumentation , very useful for the atmospheric electricity observation.
The collecting of these tools constitutes therefore a precious testimony of past Physics' activities and at the same time of the development of a scientific culture through the maintenance and enhancement of ancient scientific tools.
The proposed itinerary shows the 'visitor' a choice of the most interesting machines to exemplify how Physics contributed with its application to the evolution of other disciplines, like Medicine .
Some tools, are particularly precious besides being aesthetically pleasing: among all the perpetual electric Pendulum of Zamboni gifted by the Grand Duke of Tuscany Ferdinando III to the Atheneum in 1816 for its reopening after the Napoleonic period.
