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

The prestigious Sarton Medal awarded in 1979 to Maria Luisa Righini Bonelli, then director of the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, was donated to the Museo Galileo (May 6, 2025).

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

Yesterday, the Salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio hosted the opening of the centenary celebrations of the Istituto di Storia della Scienza.

A new digital library has been published online.

Museo Galileo, Fabbrica Italiana dell’Innovazione, and SPICI: A New Alliance Between Naples and Florence for Promoting the Culture of Innovation

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)

A new edition of the Amedeo Avogadro Digital Library has been published online (Italian only).

The exhibition Mechanics and ornamentation: A codex of the Buontalenti school, co-organised by the Archivio di Stato di Firenze, Museo Galileo and Biblioteca Marucelliana, was opened on March 21.

February 2025 marks 40 years since Nuncius published its first article. To celebrate this milestone, Brill Publisher has made freely accessible 40 key articles that have been published in the journal since its birth in 1986 to date.

The Laboratory of Neuroaesthetics, which is the result of the collaboration between the European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS) and the Museo Galileo in the framework of the Tuscany Health Ecosystem (THE) project, was inaugurated on Friday, March 7.

The Biblioteca anatomica is a thematic digital library where the texts are structured into curated pathways enriched with detailed scholarly entries and an iconographic apparatus.

The Museo Galileo, together with the University of Cagliari, presents a new digital platform titled L’iconografia botanica del Tesoro Messicano nei commenti di Ioannes Schreck e Fabio Colonna (The Botanical Iconography of the Mexican Treasure in the commentaries of Ioannes Schreck and Fabio Colonna).

On February 14, 2025—in the presence of Giovanni Bettarini, Councillor for Culture of the Municipality of Florence—two recently acquired artworks of great value were presented at the Museo Galileo.

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)”,

Il Museo Galileo lancia un progetto unico in Italia, invitando il pubblico a diventare protagonista nella creazione di una biblioteca digitale su donne e astronomia intitolata Donne del cielo

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”..

The website created by Museo Galileo makes it possible to explore the 53 maps painted on the cabinet doors of the Map Room in Palazzo Vecchio as well as Egnazio Danti’s terrestrial globe.

The collection of busts belonging to the Ospedale di Santa Maria Nuova, which has been on deposit in the Museo Galileo for many years, has become part of the permanent museum itinerary of the Florentine hospital.