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History of Science Institute and Museum - Florence

Museum of the History of Science

Housed in a medieval palace near the Uffizi, exhibits a unique collection of scientific instruments and apparata from the Medici's and Lorena's times onwards including the original instruments used by Galileo...

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address:
Museo di Storia della Scienza
Piazza Giudici 1 - Florence
Tel. +39 055 273493

Anthropology and Ethnology Museum

The construction of the so called Palazzo Nonfinito ("Not-finished") was begun by Bernardo Buontalenti in 1583 for Alessandro Strozzi but let be unfinished. In 1869 thanks to the anthropologist Mantegazza it became the seat of the national museum of anthropology.

address:
Museo di Antropologia e Etnologia
Via del Proconsolo 12 - Florence
Tel. +39 055 2396449
WEB: www.unifi.it/unifi/msn/


Palazzo Nonfinito ("Notfinished Palace") - Florence

"La Specola" Museum of Zoology

It was the Gran-duke of Tuscany Pietro Leopoldo of Lorraine who founded in 1775 in the old Palazzo Torrigiani the astronomical observatory La Specola and the Zoological Museum, the first scientific museum open to public, whose fame is linked to a collection of anatomical wax models created in the 18th-19th.

address:
Museo Zoologico La Specola
Via Romana 17 - Florence
Tel. +39 055 222451

Paleontology and Geology Museum
Mineralogy and Lithology Museum
Botanical Gardens

address:
via La Pira 4 - Florence
Tel. +39 055

Florentine Prehistorical Museum

address:
Museo Fiorentino di Preistoria
Via Sant'Egidio 21 - Florence
Tel. +39 055


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