Temporary exhibitions
2002
Galileo's celestial discoveries and the development of the telescope.
2001
The Tuscan artist's contributions to the development of perspective in figurative arts (in Italian onlystrong>).
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External related resources
2001
The exhibition features the Medici and Lorraine collection of musical instruments housed in the Galleria dell’Accademia together with scientific apparatus.
2001
A newly designed exhibition of the Accademia del Cimento’s glassware highlights the relationship of these splendid artefacts with scientific experiences made by the Academicians.
2001
The history of the first scientific society in Europe (in Italian only).
2000
The exhibition features four wonderful “theories of the planets,” that is armillary spheres showing the planetary motion usually housed at the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence.
1999
The discovery of the weight of air or the existence of the void.
1999
Machines for physical therapy and rehabilitation made between the 19th and 20th centuries bear witness to the popularization of physiotherapy in Florence.
1999
The extraordinary naturalistic, scientific and technical knowledge that had been accumulated in Pompeii and the Roman world at the time of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD.