The museum, which opened in 1982, originates from the "Rooms of Physics" provided by Marsili, then connecting to the events of the Graduate Institute, founded by Augusto Righi at the beginning of the twentieth century. The materials collected in three large rooms of the institute illustrate the development of the physical sciences in the past three secoli.Il seventeenth century is represented, among others, by means of the optical laboratory scientist Giuseppe Campani Spoleto, one of the most famous manufacturers of microscopes and telescopes of the time, whose unique collection for completeness and unity, was purchased in 1747 by Pope Benedict XIV to the scientific collections of the Institute of Sciences. Among the testimonies of the eighteenth century is reminiscent of the physics laboratory of Lord George Cowper, one of the richest era equipment and accompanied by documentation. The instrumentation of the nineteenth century include a pile of Volta, one of the oldest existing, a prototype of the astatic galvanometer vertical belonged to Leopoldo Nobili, a piezometer Oersted, a model steam locomotive built in the mid 800 Castelmaggiore materials used locomotives true. Follow almost all the equipment of Augusto Righi, the greatest exponent of the Italian nineteenth-century physics, while the twentieth century is represented by Quirino Majorana, whose legacy is one of the largest facilities of the museum.