About Museo Galileo
The Museo Galileo in Florence is a major museum dedicated to the history of science, founded in 1927 by the University of Florence. It preserves and restores historical tools and instruments that originally came from the collections of the Medici and the Dukes of Lorraine. The exhibition rooms are housed in the Palazzo Castellani, where the artifacts rescued after the flood of 1966 were put back on display. Here you can follow the development of scientific knowledge, with a special focus on Galileo Galilei and his school. The institute also serves as a research center and regularly publishes scholarly works on the history of science.
Based on the article “Museo Galileo” from the German Wikipedia, summarized and rephrased by a language modelLicense CC BY-SA 4.0
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- Museum › Science museums
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- Address
- Piazza dei Giudici, 1
50122 Florence, Italy - District
- Quartiere 1
- Phone
- +39055265311
- Website
- www.museogalileo.it
- info@museogalileo.it
- Coordinates
- 43.76772° N · 11.25594° E
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This museum shows the evolution of the instruments used in various scientific fields such as mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry, astronomy. The room of Galileo Galilei shows some of his original instruments as well as models from his drawings. The room of Spheres and Globes houses an excellent cartographic collection. In a rather macabre twist the museum also has the middle finger of Galileo's right hand on display. The museum offer some descriptions in Italian and English but you can access other languages by scanning QR codes (Chinese, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, German). The museum offers an open WiFi. It is recommended to have an idea of the principles behind the instruments (as the descriptions on the labels are rather generic). For that, you can download their free audio-guide app available in Italian and English (Google Play, Apple Store) and get an idea of the instruments displayed.
Source: Wikivoyage, „Florence“ · authors per page history · CC BY-SA 4.0 · as of 4/24/2026