The Museo Nazionale di San Matteo is located in the center of Pisa. The history of the Museum begins with the antiquarian recovery culture alive in Pisa since the eighteenth century, which is identified with the first nucleus of primitive paintings collected by the canon of the Duomo Sebastiano Zucchetti (1796). The collection, left for use by the School of Design, grew in the following century with other paintings and sculptures, also recovered through acquisitions made during the Napoleonic and post-unitary era, gradually merging into the local Academy of Fine Arts. Only in 1893 Iginio Benvenuto Supino set up the new prestigious Civic Museum at the convent of San Francesco, for which he also wrote a valuable catalog. Finally, in 1949, the new Museo Nazionale was established, which welcomed the collections of the former Civic Museum with further additions and settled in the restored convent of San Matteo in Soarta. Today, only some of the original structures of the ancient medieval monastery (11th century) can be identified, mainly in the interior rooms. In the mid-sixteenth century, however, the convent underwent modifications, as revealed by the date in the cloister, with Tuscan columns and capitals in sandstone. The current entrance facade to the museum, facing the Lungarno, of neoclassical inspiration, probably dates back to the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century.