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The Museo Galileo joins in mourning the passing of Graziella Vescovini Federici, professor emerita of History of Philosophy.

The Biographical Archive of Italian Scientific Culture (ABCSI) is a joint initiative of the Italian Society for the History of Science (SISS), the CNR-ILIESI Institute (as part of the PROSIT Project), the Museo Galileo in Florence, and Roma Tre University.

The Museo Galileo, in collaboration with the Fondazione Alinari per la Fotografia, has launched a project focused on the digitization and enhancement of the Giorgio Roster collection, which is preserved in the Alinari Archives.

Lucio Russo, in memoriam

The exhibition celebrates the hundredth anniversary of the Istituto di Storia della Scienza, now Museo Galileo.

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.