Veterinary Collection

The collection gathers equipment for teaching and research, including approximately 500 histological preparations of pathological anatomy, numerous stuffed animals, and complete animal skeletons.

The Collection encompasses tools, stuffed animals, and various items used for teaching and research since the inception of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in 1934. The scientific equipment spans the period from the 1930s to the 1980s.

Currently, the collection includes benchtop equipment such as centrifuges, magnetic stirrers, ovens, muffle furnaces, distillers, and deionizers, as well as balances, pH meters, devices for analyzing feeds, milk, meat, and blood. Other equipment used for teaching includes old slide projectors, film projectors, and devices for enlarging and projecting figures from books. Antique surgical instruments, syringes, and tools used in clinical practice are also part of the collection.

The extensive series of microscopes and cameras, often adapted for microscopy, is particularly interesting. Of significant interest is a collection of about 500 histological preparations of pathological anatomy from the mid-twentieth century (Cerrutti Collection) and a set of around thirty horse hooves with different types of shoeing, dating back to the 1930s.

The collection includes numerous animal skeletons, among which the complete skeleton of a whale is noteworthy. There are also about fifty stuffed animals, mostly representing Sardinian wildlife. Among these, a scene of a bird of prey hunting a partridge and two specimens of griffon vulture, now very rare, stands out for realism and the quality of preparation, originating from the Ittiri region.