Continuing our walk we come across in the courtyards of the university in front of the Museum for the History of the University. (See the virtual tour ).
Again, our hero has left a trace.
Here we find his "Cabinet" ...
Do not be fooled by the fortuitous combination of words, it's nothing scandalous.
recall that 'toilet' means, according to De Mauro :
-small room used for personal use, spec. intended for the private reception and private interviews: the g. Prime Minister;
-local study in which a professional spec. a physician, carries out its activities: g. dental, g. children;
-in a museum room, where special collections are collected.
This helps us better understand what it is. The physics laboratory Alessandro Volta has his office, his studio, classroom, where he studied, reflected, experimentation. At least it was. The visible today at the Museum is a reproduction inaugurated the celebrations for the bicentenary of the invention Battery (1999) and temporarily closed for renovation.
The Cabinet has a rich collection of original instruments Alessandro Volta, such as those used to study the charges electric and electrified bodies: electrophoretic, electroscope electroscope straws and caps, electrometers , traps, pictures of Franklin and conductors of various forms. 
But his most important invention you will see it only in next post ...
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