NEW VISITING HOURS: Monday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.

The new permanent exhibition of the traditions of the history and identity of Pisa, named after Umberto Moschini, was presented this morning on the ground floor of Palazzo Gambacorti, in the premises of the former registry office.

The museum space, which will be open to the public from Thursday 27 June, from Monday to Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., presents a provisional layout specifically dedicated to the challenge between the Mezzogiorno and Tramontana sides. The layout will then be remodelled after the summer with a special multimedia section dedicated to the Luminara, and the completion of the two sections devoted to the Palio di San Ranieri and the Regatta of the Ancient Maritime Republics.

On display are many elements of the history and tradition of the Gioco del Ponte, including insignia, flames, drums, targoni, morions, paintings, historical costumes from the 18th century and the 1935 edition, and illustrative panels of the city's four medieval quarters.

The exhibition also presents two models, both created in 2003 on the occasion of the conference 'Pisa and the Mediterranean' by Franco Gizdulich and recently restored and returned to the city thanks to the contribution of the Municipality of Pisa and the Pisa Foundation. The first represents 'Terzana' in Pisa in the 13th-15th centuries, where from 1200 onwards and throughout the period of maximum splendour of the Pisan navy, the republican naval arsenals were located with several dozen porticoes for storing galleys. The second, on the other hand, represents 'mediaeval Pisa' and is a precious testimony to what the city was like at the time of the Maritime Republic.