the piano's inventor. Five other Cristofori instruments are included in the museum's collections.

Key Central institutions of the university are
* Centre for Biotechnology and Biomedicine
* Career Service
* German Institute for Literature
* German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
* Higher Education Didactics Centre Saxony
* Kustodie (Art Collection)
* Leipzig University Music