HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM
Prior to 1939, new apparatuses and instruments were added, and some one hundred and fifty of these, perfectly restored, classified and indexed, are now in the museum. The work of finding, reconstituting, restoring and cataloguing is still ongoing concerning a large number of items stored in warehouses and often reduced to a few parts difficult to place owing to the work of savage "cannibalization" which took place in the immediate post-war period, when funds available for research were scanty or non-existent.
Besides those of Antonio Pacinotti, important traces of the presence of two other prestigious physicists remain in Cagliari: Giovanni Guglielmo (1891-1928) and Rita Brunetti (1928-1939).In particular, concerning the latter, her work environment has been reconstructed almost entirely, with spectrographs, original furniture and furnishings which have been conserved up to the present. This work environment can be visited at the Physics Museum of Cagliari. ..continues
