The Geothermal Energy Museum of Larderello, founded at the end of the 1950s, is located on the ground floor of the recently restored Palazzo de' Larderel. The current solution was proposed as a temporary measure to welcome the thousands of people who visit the museum annually.

The museum tells the story of geothermal energy, illustrating the research and perforation techniques by means of models.

The Wood Museum, housed at the Ponsacco Mobilio Exhibition, exhibits the tools used in the past for working on wood, from the manual tools of the carpenter’s workshop (the hammer, the saw, the “pialluzzo”, gouges, the ramin wood for heating the glue) down to the first machines, all accompanied by photographs, publications, posters and documents.

The Museum System of San Miniato offers a network of exhibition centres ideally united in a journey that involves the entire city: the rich collection of artistic Works, the cultural institutions, the la y and religious building, the urban and rural structures.

Casa Carducci Museum is kept in the house which belonged to the family of the poet, open to the public after a detailed restoration. In this house unfolded the tragedy of the Carducci family, the mysterious death of Dante, the younger brother of the poet.
The building also contains the Tourist Point of the town and is also the focal point for exhibitions and numerous cultural and gastronomical events which take place during the year at Santa Maria a Monte.

The Museum of Sacred Arts, created thanks to the participation of the Parish and the municipal government of Peccioli, is part of the town’s “Polo Museale” and is part of a process of recovery and development which has, above all, involved the Chapel dell’Assunta and the Sacristy and secondly, the paintings, the processional crosses and the sacred furnishings preserved in the Parish of Peccioli. Inside it is possible to view, apart from the Madre di Dio and the San Nicola, other precious paintings, and sacred furnishings and hangings restored for the occasion.

The historical archive of Vicopisano, housed in the rooms of the Palazzo Pretorio, contains documents which embrace more than five centuries of the history of the community of Vicopisano, Pontedera, Cascina, Bientina and Calcinaia. It represents one of the stages of the educational routes considered by the Local Culture Authority of the municipality of Vicopisano with the intention of promoting its own historical and artistic heritage.

The Conservatory of Santa Chiara was founded in the XIII century and was inhabited by a community of Poor Clares. Transformed in 1785 by the grand duke Pietro Leopoldo into the Conservatory of Oblates, today it contains a rich collection of liturgical furnishings, of gifts from the families of the Poor Clares to the Convent, of splendid Works by the nuns and the precious Bonaparte relic in ebony and ivory dating from around the XVII century.

In Via Angelica, a road which leads from the city to the ancient “carbonario” route, you find the Church of the Saints Jacopo and Lucia, in which one can view the Oratory of San Urban. There are frescoes from the first half of the XVIII century and the Stations of the Cross. It is, moreover, possible to discover some fragments of decorations dating from the end of the fourteenth century. The most readable shows Saint Urban V holding up the image of the Saints Peter and Paul.

The Archconfraternity of Mercy has a collection of art works in a large hall in Palazzo Roffia. The building offers space to highly esteemed permanent exhibition and to the periodic presentation of selected works.

The Loretino Oratory was constructed in the XIII century to serve as a private chapel. From the end of the fourteenth century it was the place of worship of the image of the Holy Crucifix until its location in 1718 in the church called after it.

The Rocca Federiciana dominates the Arno valley to the north and, to the east and west, the hills extending towards Volterra and San Gimignano. For that reason, from the XI century the Swabians had it as part of their imperial defence system which included Monselice, Prato, Fucecchio, Gaeta, Naples, Aversa and Foggia.

Pisa's Botanic Museum is housed in a small 18th-century building inside the Botanic Garden.

The facade is richly decorated with embedded shells and coloured stones and is quite striking as seen from the Garden.

The museum is a compilation of collections among which particular importance is ascribed to the herbals, collections of pressed and dried plants fixed on sheets of paper and accompanied by information about the plant itself as well as details of where and when it was found.