The Va3SCoDi project focuses on enhancing the value of historical scientific instruments and creating educational and outreach pathways that can serve as connecting threads between various museums and scientific collections related to chemistry and physics. Among these institutions, the Museum of Physics Instruments of the University of Pisa participates in the project through the Galileo Galilei Foundation. The museum houses numerous instruments from the Physics Cabinet, covering various areas of physics, from mechanics to electrostatics, from spectroscopy to optics. On April 11, some project members, such as Valentina Domenici, Luca Rocca, and Sergio Giudici, organized a visit to the Museum of Physics Instruments and the ‘Ludoteca Scientifica’. Also present was Dr. Claudio Luperini, who has overseen the physics instruments collection for years. He personally presented some of the most prestigious historical scientific instruments in the collection, including inventions by Antonio Pacinotti, from the famous Pacinotti machine to devices based on electromagnetic traction. During the visit, several instruments related to spectroscopy were also closely examined, such as a 1930s spectrograph, currently not on display, and various Crookes vacuum tubes, which have recently been set up in the ‘Ludoteca Scientifica’ in a space dedicated to historical scientific instruments. This meeting was important for planning archival research activities related to some of the historical instruments from the Physics Cabinet.
