Pisa, Piazza dei Miracoli | Museum of Antiquities

With over 3,700 square metres of exhibition space – of which 3,200 inside the Monumental Cemetery and 550 newly created in adjoining spaces – the new Museum of Antiquity will be articulated in an itinerary that will interweave existing itineraries and new exhibition spaces.

The sarcophagi currently visible in the Cemetery will not be moved, but rather organically inserted into the narrative of the new museum, as an integral part of a layout that will enhance their historical, religious and artistic significance.

The Museum of Antiquities, which will open at the beginning of 2027, will return to the public an exceptional collection that brings together Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek and Roman artefacts in an unprecedented narrative based on reuse: artefacts and testimonies from different eras, originally intended for daily life, worship or burial, which over time have been reworked or reinterpreted in subsequent eras and civilisations. A tale rooted in the Mediterranean identity and restoring Pisa to its historical role as a maritime power and crossroads of cultures.

Among the most precious nuclei of the Museum of Antiquities is the collection of Roman sarcophagi – the second largest and most important in Italy after that of the Vatican Museums – included in an itinerary that will include Etruscan urns, Greek sculptures, fragments and capitals from the Roman era and late antique materials, until now mainly kept in the deposits of the Opera del Duomo.