Musei Universitari Unimore

Museum System of the University of Bari

 

www.cismus.uniba.it/

The CISMUS - Interdepartmental Centre of Services for Scientific Museology is a quite recent institution of the Athenaeum of Bari. It dates back to 1994 and owes its constitution to the efforts of a small group of enlightened professors, who were able to catch the importance and the identity and formative role of the historical-scientific and naturalistic heritage collected in the halls, rooms, and laboratories of the University of Bari.

 

 

 

 

 

Its goals are:

-  the coordination and the centralization of the services of documentation and digitization of data related to the area of interest;

- the connections of the university outwards for everything concerning activities of scientific museology;

- the location, the restoration, the historical cultural organization of exhibits worth for the knowledge of Nature and the history of Science, Technic, and Work;

- the development and the support, also with mass-media and computer instruments, of didactic activities to disseminate scientific and museum culture;

giving advice to institutions and both public and private organisms on the themes of the Centre;

- the formative activities, the valorization of museums, the promotion and the organization of new projects in the areas of expertise.

The Centre gathers 15 structures regarding various fields of the scientific disciplines, depositary of important collections of both instruments and naturalistic specimen, which represent an important part of the cultural heritage of the Athenaeum.

 

The system Museums and the Collections are:

Botanical Garden

“Lidia Liaci” Geology Museum

Science of Earth Museum

Collection of the Department of Physics

Zoology Museum

“A. Manzi” Laboratory for the History of Applied Psychology