Address: Modena - via Camatta, 15 - Complesso San Geminiano 
phone: +39 059 205 5039 
e-mail: macchine@unimore.it
Contact: prof. Maria G. Bartolini
Visits by appointment

The Laboratory of Mathematical Machines, founded in the early 1980s, is a research laboratory on the teaching of mathematics (particularly geometry) with the use of instruments. It has a collection of around two hundred instruments for geometry (mathematical machines), reconstructed from historical research on original documents: most refer to the 16th-19th centuries (prospectographs, curvigraphs, pantographs for transformations), but there are also numerous instruments from classical antiquity, related to the theory of conic sections and problem solving.

Address: Modena - via Università, 4 
phone: +30 059 205 7091 
e-mail: polomuseale@unimore.it
Contact: prof. Emiro Endrighi

Beyond the entrance to the University Building, dominated by the wrought-iron gates by Gian Battista Malagoli (late 18th century), is the Lapidario-Galleria dei busti, which includes various inscriptions in memory of significant historical moments such as the important equalization of our University with the largest in Italy on 14 July 1897, the transcription of General Armando Diaz's war bulletin of 4 November 1918, which decreed victory in World War I, the memory of racial persecution and the end of World War II. Numerous busts of illustrious professors of the University also adorn the walls, bearing witness to the excellence of studies and research achieved since the 17th and 18th centuries. There is also a Rectors' Gallery with pictorial portraits of those who succeeded one another at the helm of the University no longer under the rule of the Este family from 1859 onwards. This is a collection of physiognomic and differently characterised portraits, in which valuable artists, mostly from Modena, have tried their hand.

Address: Modena - via Università, 4 
phone: +39 059 205 7131/7129 
e-mail: polomuseale@unimore.it
Contact: Dr. Ciro Tepedino

The origins of the Anatomical Museum date back to Antonio Scarpa who, during the period in which he was a lecturer at the University of Modena, had an Anatomical Theatre built adjacent to the Great Hospital of Sant'Agostino, inaugurated in 1775. After the Restoration, between 1817 and 1818, the Anatomical Museum was set up in a room on the floor built above the Theatre to which three more rooms were added between 1839 and 1853. The four rooms are dedicated, starting from the entrance, the first to osteological preparations, the second to arthro-myological preparations, the third to the digestive, respiratory, circulatory, excretory and reproductive systems and the fourth to the sense organs, neurology, embryology and teratology (morphological anomalies of the individual). In 1866, the anatomical director Paolo Gaddi inaugurated the additional section of the Ethnographic Anthropological Museum in the same rooms. Since 2017 it has been part of the Polo Museale dell'Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia.

Address: Modena - via Università, 4 
phone: +39 059 205 6530 
e-mail: giovanna.menziani@unimore.it
Contact: dott.ssa Giovanna Menziani

It originated from the Natural History Museum commissioned by Duke Francesco III d'Este in 1776. It was established in 1926 when the collections were assigned to the Institute of Palaeontology and Geology, separate from those of the Institute of Mineralogy, and acquired its own identity following the establishment of the Institute of Palaeontology in 1961, thanks to Professor Eugenia Montanaro Gallitelli. The Museum possesses important historical collections, dating back to the second half of the 19th century and consisting of tens of thousands of specimens including molluscs, echinoderms, arthropods, and plant remains, which have had to be moved several times over the years: in 1961, with the creation of the Institute of Palaeontology, the fossil collections were moved to the mezzanine floor of the Rector's Building, where they are still located today. Since 2017 it has been part of the Polo Museale dell'Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia.

Address: Modena - via Università, 4 
phone: + 39 059 205 6561 
e-mail: polomuseale@unimore.it
Contact: Dr. Andrea Gambarelli

It originated from the Natural History Museum commissioned by Duke Francesco III d'Este in 1776 and developed from the 19th century onwards thanks to donations from the Dukes of Este, the acquisition of numerous zoological collections due to the work of many professors at the University, including Antonio Carruccio and Antonio Della Valle, which enabled the museum located on the top floor of the Rector's Palace in Modena to be expanded. Further additions were made in the first half of the 20th century especially thanks to Guido Corni, who was appointed Governor of Somalia in 1929. Since 2017 it has been part of the Polo Museale dell'Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia.

Address: Modena - largo Sant'Eufemia, 19 
phone: +39 059 205 5873 
e-mail: museo.gemma1786@unimore.it
Contact: Dr. Milena Bertacchini

Free admission during opening hours, educational activities by appointment.

The Museum houses collections of 18th-century origin derived from the Museum of Natural History of the Royal University of Modena built in 1786 by Duke Francesco III d'Este. A heritage consisting of rocks, meteorites, minerals, hard and precious stones, maps, documents and historical instruments, which has been enriched over time. In the 19th century, the collections were enriched by donations left by members of the Este family and by samples collected in study campaigns conducted by important figures such as Pietro Doderlein. From the 20th century to the present day, the Museum has increased its holdings with donations from citizens interested in natural sciences and with study campaigns led by researchers from the department in distant regions such as Greenland, Brazil, Africa, Australia and Antarctica.

Address: Modena - via Università, 4 
phone: +39 059 205 7131/7129 
e-mail: polomuseale@unimore.it
Contact: Dr. Ciro Tepedino

The museum section is: currently closed for renovation and restoration.

The origin of the Obstetrical Museum dates back to the University reform promoted by Duke Francesco III d'Este between 1772 and 1773 when the teaching of Anatomy was entrusted to Antonio Scarpa, who had dedicated the lecture at the beginning of the 1775 academic year in the new Anatomical Theatre to Obstetrics and who had created the Obstetrical Museum in an adjoining room, with various preparations including some in wax made by the Bolognese sculptor Giovan Battista Manfredini. The latter is responsible for a valuable nucleus of obstetrical terracottas exhibited in the Museum, including six female statues depicting pregnant women, two depicting subcutaneous anatomy and reproductions of foetuses in various positions inside the uterus. Since 2017 it has been part of the Polo Museale dell'Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia.

Address: Modena - viale Caduti in Guerra, 127 
phone: +39 059 205 8270 
e-mail: ortobot@unimore.it
Director: prof. Emiro Endrighi

Closed to the public for restoration work.

The Botanical Garden of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia is located in the historic centre of the city of Modena.
It has an extension of approximately 1 hectare and has 300 square metres of covered area for the sheltering and display of plants. The main activities that take place within the Botanical Garden are intimately linked to the performance of university teaching and research focused on botanical disciplines. In addition, the Botanical Garden is also home to and promoter of numerous educational, popular and promotional activities on subjects in various ways related to botany and plants, aimed both at schools and at a heterogeneous public of enthusiasts or the merely curious. The plants grown at the Garden - both herbaceous and woody - together provide an exhaustive representation of the biodiversity of the plant kingdom. In relation to the different physio-ecological 
requirements and the variable capacity to adapt to environmental conditions, a part of these plants is grown in containers, and is sheltered in the adverse season in suitable, even heated, environments, while the remainder are planted in the open air or inside protected premises, where they also contribute to the creation of settings that exemplify particularly significant habitats.

Address: Modena - Piazza Roma, 22 
e-mail: ossgeo@unimore.it
Scientific referee: Prof. Sergio Teggi

The Astronomical Observatory was built in 1826 at the behest of Francesco IV d'Este in the eastern tower of the 17th-century Ducal Palace, where it is still housed. The direction was entrusted to Professor Giuseppe Bianchi and the most important astronomical instruments, including the passage instrument still in situ, were commissioned to the Modenese optician and astronomer Giovanni Battista Amici. Thanks to the work of Pietro Tacchini, in 1876 it became the Meteorological Observatory under the direction of Pietro Ragna, who had the first meteorological window built in 1865. Following research by director Ciro Chistoni, the Observatory took on the name Geophysical.

The Geophysical Observatory was recently restored after being damaged by the 2012 earthquake and reopened to the public. 
» Images of the official opening on 17 April 2019.

Address: Modena - via Campi 213/A - Department of Physical, Computer and Mathematical Sciences 
e-mail: fistorica@unimore.it
Contact: Prof.ssa Rossella Brunetti

The University of Modena and Reggio Emilia possesses a valuable collection of historical scientific instruments that bear witness to the scientific research and teaching conducted in Modena since the mid-1700s. A complete digital cataloguing of the current holdings of the University and other cultural institutions in the city is available for the first time. In addition, for the most valuable instruments, a conservative restoration activity is underway, accompanied by historical/scientific research aimed at gathering technical information and identifying, where possible, the use of the instruments themselves. The restored instruments, which are described in the descriptions published on the Collection's website, can be visited in the current Physics building while waiting for a suitable location.

Visits by appointment 
Website: https://www.strumentazionestorica.unimore.it/