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The instrument collections of the Museo Galileo in Florence are among the most important in the world. These collections preserve an eloquent testimony to the promotion of scientific research carried out, first, by the members of the Medici dynasty, then by the Grand Dukes of Lorraine.

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SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Galileo at the museum

A look at the life of the Pisan scientist and his precious instruments and memorabilia preserved in the museum that bears his name.

Temporary exhibition

June 20 – October 19, 2025

One Hundred Years of the History of Science in Florence

The rare editions of volumes on display offer visitors a unique opportunity to admire masterworks usually conserved out of view. A photographic exhibition documents the most important moments in the life of the Institute over these hundred years. The story illustrates how Florence—with its history and heritage of texts and scientific instruments—has proven the ideal birthplace for this institution, which embodies a model practically unprecedented in the panorama of Italian museums.

The cost is included in the entrance ticket

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THE IMMORTAL CITY

13 December 2024 - 27 July 2025

La Sucrière, 49-50 Quai Rambaud
69002 Lyon France

Curator: Giovanni Di Pasquale (Deputy Scientific Director)

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Lucio Russo, in memoriam

The Prize of the Minister of Culture for Philosophical Sciences to Michele Camerota, member of the Museo Galileo’s Scientific Committee

This year’s prestigious Lyncean Prize of the Minister of Culture for Philosophical Sciences was awarded to Michele Camerota, Professor of the History of Science and Techniques at the University of Cagliari, a member of the Museo Galileo’s Scientific Committee

Issue 12 of Imagines dedicated to the study day “Per verba ad astra”

Issue No. 12 of Imagines, the magazine of the Gallerie degli Uffizi

Call for Papers | International Conference

The Words of Vitruvius: Between Archaeological Findings and Vulgarizations
Fano, Centro Studi Vitruviani, Thursday, October 16th – Friday, October 17th, 2025

WINTER SCHOOL IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE

Behind the scenes of a museum

Florence, Museo Galileo, 24-28 November 2025

Winter School, organised in collaboration with the Italian Society for the History of Science on the occasion of the centenary of the Institute of the History of Science (now Museo Galileo)

Call for abstracts - Galilaeana

The journal Galilaeana. Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Science invites submissions for the monographic issue “Knowledge in Use. Practices and Practitioners in the Renaissance and Early Modern Period (14th-17th centuries)”,

Call for abstracts - Galilaeana

The journal "Galilaeana. Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Science" invites scholars in the history of mathematics and researchers in the field of Renaissance science to submit contributions for a monographic issue on “Mathematical Thought in the Renaissance and the Genesis of Modern Mathematics”..

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