Sinopie Museum

This is not the most interesting thing to do while in the Pisa complex, but if you have time pay it a visit. It's mainly composed by frescoes and restorations of older paintings, can become boring after a few...

This museum is a fascinating bonus stop if you buy a combined ticket for the square. It houses the original sketches for the Camposanto frescoes that were rescued after World War II. Reviewers appreciate seeing the raw, behind-the-scenes artistic process of the medieval painters, and the giant, air-conditioned space is a great place to cool down.

It is the only building in the area where there is a little section (apart from souvenir shops) that is free to enter.

Such an incredible museum that we were not expecting. The walls are lined with the draft etchings and drawings taken from the Camposanto. These drawings on stone are enormous and so intricate in their design. The museum also has coloured mini alfresco upstairs on display We visited as part of the €10/4 attraction entry ticket. It also has a great miniature replica of all the main places to see. Start here on your day visit the area as its housed in the ticket building.

Not so impressive. If you like restoration of pictures it may be interesting. It is just drownings. Not much to see here. Not much information. I wish they invest some money and make it more visual, videos, lights, colours interactive so even children can learn something. I find the ticket is too expensive for what they offer.

I had decided to skip this museum but decided to just look at it for five minutes and leave. I ended up staying very happily. You will be able to see reproductions of how all the frescoes were when they were complete, understand how they were painted, and also see how they do the restoration work. It is a small museum, but it gives you an experience you cannot have anywhere else as the sinoples themself are never separated from a fresco (it is allways behind it). It is separated here due to the fire that broke during the fight against the Nazis, so it is not a common ocurrance.

There wasn't much to see in here. We only went because it was included in the bundled tower tickets. But I did appreciate that it was cool inside and has a nice bathroom. Otherwise, it wasn't too exciting and was fairly small.

5/5 bathroom break. If you buy the combo pass save a euro and stop by, then leave. Museum itself is pretty bland

Sinopie Museum is on the site originally of a hospital, but now houses large frescos meant to be saved, in a climate controlled indoor space. It is one of six buildings that you can visit as part of the Square of Pisa. You do need a ticket to enter, costing 7€ separately, but included as part of a 10€ package for the other museums (not the Tower) I love how the museum is structured, with 4 total stories (all accessible via elevator), but of different floor space, to allow fresco of different sizes to be displayed. For example the bottom floor housed frescos that took up more than one floor. You can walk through the entire floor space pretty fast if you peruse, but many of the frescos have interesting write-ups next to them, that you can use to study them. There was a nice 3-d rendition of the campus here as well. We spent about 30 minutes here.

Museo Delle Sinopie, is one of the museums that flank the leaning Tower of Pisa. It is a big hall like room that displays frescoes for the most part. It can be done very quickly. Alex and I took about an hour or so because we examined some of the frescoes closely, but if you just browse about, you can be done in under an hour. All these museums are included with your purchased ticket to go into the tower. If you buy online that is. I am not sure how it works if you are to get your tickets while you are there. As far as museums go, after you've been to so many amazing ones in the larger cities, this one doesn't seem to be all that great, but it is still worth seeing it, there is always something interesting to learn. Also some of the paintings and drawings in the upper levels are great.