This is the university science museum, featuring, among other things, beautifully crafted wax anatomical models that were used for teaching in the 18th century. If you are squeamish, don't look!
Wooden models for types of military fortifications:
The Pinoteca (art museum) has some wonderful early Italian paintings:
Detail of above:
There is also an excellent modern art museum called MamBo. It features an extensive collection of the works of Morandi, who lived all his life in Bologna: These obsessive still life paintings and watercolors take a lot of patience to find you way in to them. But the are very rewarding.
A watercolor:
Another museum features a dissection room; a theater used during Renaissance times for teaching anatomy. It's all built in wood:
The table for the corpses, and the teachers podium:
Skinless carved wooden statues:
In the same building, the "Stabat Mater" room, where Rossini's composition of the same name was premiered. (He was a resident of Bologna.)
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