The museum, property of the University of Pisa, is hosted inside the west side of the Carthusian Monastery of Calci.

The collection, originally located in the Giardino dei Semplici (today called Botanical Garden) was born as a selection of oddity for want of Ferdinando I de' Medici. It was moved to the current seat in the end of the 19th Century.

The museum gathers a rich collection of 500.000 zoological, paleontological e mineralogical finds and the most interesting room is the Cetacean one with complete whale's skeletons 26 meters long, settled inside the old Carthusian Monastery's barn.

Opening hours:

from the 16th of September to the 14th of June, from Tuesday to Saturday: from 9.00 to 18.00; Sundays and holidays: from10.00 to 19.00 ; from the 15th of June to the 15th of September: from Tuesday to Friday: from 10.00 to 19.00; Saturdays, Sundays and holidays: from 10.00 to 24.00 (Closed on Mondays, the first of January e the 25th of December)

Place: Via Roma, 79, Calci

Telephone contacts: +39 050 2212970

Web Site: www.msn.unipi.it