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The Museo Galileo joins in mourning the passing of Luigi Zangheri (1943-2025).

The Italian Ministry of Culture has allocated a three million euro investment for the GalileoLab, a new cultural and educational space in Florence promoted by the Museo Galileo.

This conference is the first in a series conceived by Arithmeum and Museo Galileo, which aims to bring together directors and curators of museums that keep historical scientific instruments on a regular basis.

The Museo Galileo is deeply saddened to mourn the passing of Giuseppe Cambiano, one of the most authoritative scholars in the history of philosophy, science, and technology in the ancient world.

The project, which is the outcome of a collaboration between the Museo Galileo and the Accademia dei Georgofili, explores the relationship between humans and forests through an exhibition.

On September 10, the Museo Galileo will participate in Expo 2025 Osaka at the Italian Pavilion with the scientific outreach project “Galileo’s Legacy,” co-produced with INAF-National Institute for Astrophysics and VIS-Virtual Immersions in Science.

The digital library devoted to the Roster Collection of the Foresiana Library collects and provides access to a broad selection of digital photographic resources, which document Giorgio Roster’s life and scientific work.

EcoMuse Lab, a new free course for designers, artisans, and creatives: an interdisciplinary training initiative born from the collaboration of the Museo Galileo with the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, ISIA Florence, the University of Florence – SAGAS, and ARTEX, as part of the PNRR and NextGenerationEU projects.

On 27 July, ViATor Via Appia Traiana officina per la ricerca was inaugurated in Palazzo Angelini in Buonalbergo (Benevento). It is not only a museum but also a documentation centre on the history of the ancient Via Traiana (Trajan Road), a UNESCO World Heritage Site. 

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.