This museum houses the sinopie sketches that were discovered underneath the charred remains of the Camposanto's ruined frescoes .

Placards reproducing Carlo Lasinio's 19th-century engravings of the finished frescoes sit in front of each sinopie to help you reconstruct what the final work once looked like.

The two most interesting things are how different artists used the sinopia stage of the fresco process (some sketched just rough outlines to guide their later work, others went as far as shading the drapery and detailing facial features) and to see where the master changed his mind between sketch and finished work -- like a giant academic's game of "One of These Things Is Not Like the Other.

Open Hours

Apr-Sept daily 8am-7:30pm; Mar and Oct daily 9am-5:30pm; Nov-Feb daily 9am-4:30pm

Prices

Admission charges for the group of monuments and museums on the campo are tied together in a needlessly complicated way. The Cattedrale alone costs 2€ ($2.60). Any other single sight is 5€ ($6.50). Any two sights are 6€ ($7.80). The Cattedrale plus any two other sights is 8€ ($10). An 8.50€ ($11) ticket gets you into the Baptistery, Camposanto, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, and Museo delle Sinopie, while a 11€ ($14) version throws in the Cattedrale as well. Children under 10 enter free. For more information, visit their collective website .

Transportation

Bus: 1, 3, 11  
  
Web site www.opapisa.it