MUSEO Anatomico Veterinario

The Veterinary Anatomical Museum was born in Pisa in 1818 held privately by Vincenzo Mazza, Veterinarian of the Grand Army Napoleonic. This school only lasts until 1821, when the Club moved to Naples. In 1824 he arrives in Pisa Melchiorre Tonelli as a municipal veterinarian and as a cavalry officer and the real horse breeds and in 1839 was established a Zooiatria aggregate professorship at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Pisa. The teaching fails and the chair is suppressed in 1851. The definitive rooting of these studies was in 1859 with Cosimo Ridolfi who was appointed Minister of Education of the Provisional Government of Tuscany; by this time the veterinary teaching consolidates and expands rapidly.   In 1874 finds hospitality in Via Savi, land adjacent to Spedali Riuniti di Santa Chiara, the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery and is near public butchery and the Stallions deposit. Born this way the Royal School of Veterinary Medicine in the employ of the University (1875), which later became the Institute (1923) and then the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (1934).

In the Cabinet of Anatomy, then named Institute of General Anatomy and Descriptive Vertebrate Servants, reserved space for Anatomical Museum. Here they are accommodated the anatomical specimens inherited from previous periods, dating back to the teaching of the Bat, to which are added those of Professor Lombardini and his students, Chiappa, Antonini, Stampani and Bossi. Bossi, trainer anatomy expert and interested in particular blood vessels, he became the director of the Institute of Anatomy of the year after the death of Lombardini in 1898 and maintained until 1903, when it began to dedicate himself to surgery. He will replace Ugo Barpi (1903-1925) from the School of Medicine of Naples Veterinary. The boost to the preparation of new museum prepared braking and at the end of the First World War is totally exhausted.

 The Anatomical Museum has not gone unscathed in the Second World War, many preparations, including precious, are indeed lost. In 1965 the museum moved to its present location of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine