The museum gathers the preparatory drawings, or sinopie, of the fresco paintings located in the Monumental Cemetery. Among the most known there are the Trionfo della morte by Buffalmacco, la Crocifissione by Francesco Traini and some works of art by Benoz
Located in Valgraziosa, just 10 Km far from Pisa, it is almost entirely visitable; where once were hosted the agrucultural activities today there is the Natural History Museum of the University of Pisa.
The museum gathers a rich collection of zoological, paleontological e mineralogical finds and is hosted inside the west side of the Carthusian Monastery of Calci.
Ghirlandaio, Giunta Pisano, Beato Angelico, Benozzo Gozzoli, Masaccio, Gentile da Fabriano, Donatello:they are only some of the painters whose works of art are shown in the San Matteo Museum.
This cemetery was conceives not only for as a burial place but also to make the living think about the meaning of both the life on earth and the eternal one, through a series of fresco paintings.
On the occasion of some works made for the Pisa-San Rossore Station, archaeological finds were discovered.. The Centro di Restauro del Legno Bagnato was born to preserve the archaeological finds.
Besides the Tesoro dell'Uomo there are parts dedicated to the Egyptian, Romans and Etruscan antiquity.
It testifies the ruling class propensity for beauty, from the Medici family to the bourgeois collectors of the twentieth-century.