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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... address: |
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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: |
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"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: |
Paleontology
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Florentine Prehistorical Museum address: |
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