Pisa was one of the first university towns to have an Anatomical School: the teaching of Human Anatomy began at the behest of Cosimo I dei Medici, who had an Anatomical Theatre built. In addition to the numerous anatomical preparations and models divided into various sections (osteology, angiology, splanchnology, embryology), the Museo di Anatomia Umana "Filippo Civinini" houses valuable archaeological collections, including an Egyptian mummy with sarcophagus, and then mummies, grave goods and pre-Columbian vases, collected by the doctor and scholar Carlo Regnoli in the second half of the nineteenth century. The museum exhibition is completed by the Galleria de Busti, with plaster casts of ancient anatomists, and the Galleria Mascagni, where Paolo Mascagni's anatomical plates are displayed.