Located just a few steps from Lungarno Pacinotti and Piazza dei Cavalieri, the "Edda Bresciani" Egyptological Collections of the University of Pisa represent today a point of reference for scholars and enthusiasts of archaeology and history of ancient Egypt for the importance of their artifacts, especially those coming from the area of ancient Nubia, largely the result of excavations carried out under the patronage of the University of Pisa.

Overlooking Lungarno Galilei and housed in the halls of the sixteenth-century Palazzo Lanfranchi, the Museum of Graphic Art of the University of Pisa is configured as one of the most important public collections of contemporary graphic art with over 3,000 works that are periodically exhibited in the temporary exhibitions organized throughout the year.

The Museum presents the artistic history of Pisa, fully integrated into a European and Mediterranean context, with works from the twelfth to the seventeenth century by Pisan, Tuscan, and other artists created primarily for churches and convents of the city. It exhibits one of the most important collections of medieval art, in addition to archaeological artifacts, ceramic basins of Islamic manufacture, illuminated manuscripts, and a rich numismatic series. Of enormous significance are also the works of the principal masters of the fifteenth century, from Gentile da Fabriano to Beato Angelico, from Masaccio to Donatello.

The Certosa rises on the Pisan hills. Founded in 1366 as a monastery of the order of Saint Bruno, it owes its grandiose present appearance, with frescoes, stuccoes, and furnishings, to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century transformations that nevertheless maintain the internal subdivisions functional to the Carthusian rule. It stands as one of the major examples of Baroque architecture in Tuscany. In the sacristy is exhibited the Atlantic Bible, an extraordinary illuminated manuscript in four volumes dated 1168.

Within the Medici Arsenals overlooking the lungarni are exhibited ships of the Roman age with their artifacts discovered in 1998, during the expansion works of the San Rossore railway station. Seven vessels, datable between the third century B.C. and the seventh century A.D., and approximately 8,000 objects recount a millennium of commerce and sailors, routes and shipwrecks, navigation, life on board, and the history of the city of Pisa.

A few steps from Piazza del Duomo, the Botanical Garden and Museum of the University of Pisa, the first university botanical garden by foundation, in its approximately two hectares, hosts plants from the five continents, the succulents of African and American deserts, the aromatic plants of the Mediterranean scrubland, the species of Tuscan marshes, numerous centuries-old trees, and many other botanical species.