Bright 2025 returns on Friday 26 September. The European Night of Researchers with a program full of events. The theme of the 2025 edition is inclusion: the founding value of a science that takes care of people, relationships, territories, the environment. A science capable of listening, dialogue, cooperation and putting knowledge as a common good back at the center and research as a tool for building a more equitable, sustainable and participatory future.
The BRIGHT-NIGHT project is an associated event of the European Commission's HORIZON-MSCA-2023-CITIZENS-01 programme.

Like every year, the University Museum System will also participate with a rich program of free activities that will take place in museums and research centers: the museum staff awaits adults and children with guided tours, workshops, talks and seminars.

Here is the detail of the proposals of our museums.

EGYPTOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS (https://www.egitto.sma.unipi.it/)

• Friday 26 September - Inauguration of the Nava/Bresciani Collection with guided tours in two shifts: 5 pm and 6 pm. 

Free event upon reservation: info.collezioni-gittologiche@sma.unipi.it by Thursday 25 September, 1 pm. 

GIPSOTECA (https://www.gipsoteca.sma.unipi.it/)

• Stories from the excavation: the Etruscans of Volterra tell...Friday 26 September from 7 pm to 11 pm. Guided tours and thematic insights as part of the archaeological exhibition “Eternal homes. The Etruscan mounds of the Colombaie di Volterra”, open from 19 September. The Etruscologists of the Department of Civilization and Forms of Knowledge, in collaboration with anthropologists from the Department of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, will guide visitors and female visitors inside to discover the Etruscan necropolis of the Colombaie, which the Etruscology team is bringing to light in recent years in Volterra.
  The visits will be an opportunity to learn about the history of the site and the findings made in the archaeological site, observe the finds that have been found inside Tumulus 2 and have information on modern techniques for studying and analyzing human finds.

MUSEUM OF PHYSICS INSTRUMENTS - LUDOVTECA SCIENTIFICA (http://www.ludotecascientifica.it/)

• Indovina quando: special science, Friday 26 September from 4 pm. Let's retrace the history of science together by discovering inventions and scientific instruments, how they have evolved over time and what they were used for. We will see what discoveries they have led to and if and how they are still useful today, both in scientific and everyday use.

Information: +39 050 2214861 – +39 3200403946.

MUSEUM OF COMPUTING TOOLS  (https://www.msc.sma.unipi.it/)

• Friday 26 September at 5.30 pm.Guided tour of the exhibition "Non solo Calcolo-Vita lavorativa e tempo libero prima dell'arrivo di Internet", new setup to learn about an exhibition that from the first mechanical calculating machines and cash registers arrives at electronic calculation tools and continue a journey fascinating between word processing, electronic music and video games.

Free event upon reservation: https://www.msc.sma.unipi.it/prenotazione-eventi-speciali/.

GRAPHICS MUSEUM (https://museodellagrafica.sma.unipi.it/)

• Saturday 27 September at 3.30 pm will be held the event"A regola d'arte", a free event reserved for families (children 6-11 years old). Have you ever wondered how a work of art is made? Manual skill and imagination are essential, but artists must also know science! In fact, did you know that to create some works from the Graphics Museum collection you need to know chemistry? We are waiting for you to reveal many curiosities about artistic techniques and to experiment together!

Booking while available places last via email to educazione.museodellagrafica@sma.unipi.it. by Friday 26th at 1 pm. 

Information: 050 2216 059 / 070 / 060

BOTANICAL GARDEN (https://www.ortomuseobot.sma.unipi.it/)

• Friday 26 September from 4 pm  "Piante e territorio: biodiversità svelata in città". The staff of the Botanical Garden and Museum and the PLANTSEED LAb, Department of Biology will involve people with interactive activities (themed games and quizzes, identifications), images and short presentations on the concept of urban biodiversity (what it means, why it is important) and the results of the research carried out within the IDEM FLOS and EMBRACE projects, conducted as part of the activities of the National Biodiversity Future Center, aimed at characterizing the plant biodiversity of the Pisan territory and of the Migliarino-San Rossore-Massaciuccoli Park. 
  Free event, aimed at everyone. Reservation not necessary. 

Free event, aimed at everyone. Reservation not necessary.

• 5 pm "Svelare la biodiversità in città". The director of the Botanical Garden and Museum will give a talk on the topic of urban biodiversity (what it means, why it is important) and the results of the research carried out as part of the IDEM FLOS and EMBRACE projects, conducted as part of the activities of the National Biodiversity Future Center, aimed at characterizing the plant biodiversity of the Pisan territory and of the Migliarino-San Rossore-Massaciuccoli Park.

Free event, aimed at everyone. Reservation not necessary .

MUSEUM OF HUMAN ANATOMY "FILIPPO CIVININI" & MUSEUM OF PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY AND PALEOPATHOLOGY

• Friday 26 September at 5 pm "Storie nascoste: cosa ci racconano le ossa". Bioarchaeology studies the human remains of the past to reconstruct the lives of people that history has often not told: ordinary men, women and children, workers, migrants.
  Through the analysis of bones, isotopes, DNA, and 3 D reconstructions, it is possible to discover how they lived, what they ate, where they came from, and how they moved. A meeting to discover how science can bring forgotten stories to light and introduce us to the past in a new way, closer to people.

Free event, reserved fors tudents and adults. Information and bookings by email to info.mau@sma.unipi.it.