The Barsanti and Matteucci Museum is located in the historic center of Lucca near the Guinigi Tower and hosts a permanent exhibition dedicated to two Lucca scientists; inventors of the revolutionary internal combustion engine: father Eugenio Barsanti (1821-1864) and the engineer Felice Matteucci (1808 -1887).
The Italian Museum of Folklore Imaginary, inaugurated in 2019, was born thanks to the Documentation Center of the Oral Tradition in Piazza al Serchio.
The Documentation Center, coordinated for years by prof. Alberto Borghini of the Polytechnic of Turin, has collected and recorded thousands of unpublished stories of the Italian oral tradition (including fairy tales, legends and popular beliefs), in order to preserve their memory for future generations.
The Antonio Mordini Civic Museum of the Territory of Barga is located in the fourteenth-century Palazzo Pretorio, the ancient seat of the city magistrates. In the loggia that precedes the entrance, some important testimonies of the historical events of Barga from the Middle Ages to the period of the Unification of Italy are preserved. For a long time Barga was an enclave of the Florentine territorial extension nestled between the Lucca and Estense states. There are also some family coats of arms of the podestà sent from Florence to administer the territory.
The Museum of the plaster figurine and emigration of Coreglia Antelminelli was established in 1975.
The Museum is located in the historic center, in a building that belonged to Baron Carlo Vanni, a figurine maker who lived for a long time in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The Athena Museum in Capannori, housed in an eighteenth-century palace of the seventeenth century, offers a journey into the history of this territory through an archaeological and ethno-graphic exhibition.
The Padre Eugenio Barsanti Museum is located on the first floor of Palazzo Panichi, a historic building in the central square of the city of Pietrasanta, built in the 15th century.
The museum collection gathers the personal objects, relics and documents that belonged to Father Eugenio Barsanti who invented, together with Felice Matteucci, the internal combustion engine.
The birthplace of the poet Giosue Carducci is located a few kilometers from Pietrasanta, in the hamlet of Valdicastello, in the valley bathed by the Baccatoio river and squeezed between Monte Lieto and Monte Gabberi.
His father Michele, originally from Pietrasanta, who became the doctor of the Valdicastello mines, moved to the small village of Valdicastello to give medical assistance to the miners and their families.
The Versilian Archaeological Museum Bruno Antonucci, is located in the municipality of Pietrasanta.
The museum collection is the result of the search for archaeological finds by the Versilian Speleological and Archaeological Group, led by Professor Bruno Antonucci. The artefacts found tell the story of Versilia from Prehistory to the Middle Ages.
The museum itinerary is divided into thematic areas, each dedicated to a particular historical period in Versilia
The Museum of Work and Popular Traditions of Historical Versilia is housed inside the Medici Palace in Seravezza, built by Cosimo I in the second half of the 1500s and today a UNESCO World Heritage Site; together with the Villas and Medici Gardens of Tuscany.
The Historical Museum of Sant’Anna di Stazzema was inaugurated in 1982 by the President of the Italian Republic Sandro Pertini, and is dedicated to the themes of the Second World War, the Resistance and the atrocious Nazi-Fascist massacres.