1925-2025: 100 Years of the History of Science in Florence

The title of the new Museo Galileo of Florence exhibition says it all about what is being celebrated: 100 years of an institution, the Istituto di Storia della Scienza, that enriches the city's cultural and museum heritage. The Institute is the driving force behind the Museo Galileo.

The exhibition, opening at Palazzo Castellani on June 20, celebrates the Institute's first 100 years, corresponding to crucial years in the history of science in Italy. On show will be rare and precious editions of volumes mainly from the Fondo Mediceo-Lorenese, which includes the scientific texts collected by the two families that governed Tuscany, precious documents normally kept in the Institute's library and not on display.

There is also a photographic exhibition that accounts for the most significant moments in 100 years of history, highlighting the multiplicity of events that have characterised the Institute and Museum's parallel journey.

There is no shortage of videos and projections, intended to explore some of the themes on which the research of the Institute and Museum of the History of Science has focused from its foundation to the present day, emphasising that it was precisely Florence - in terms of tradition, history and heritage of scientific texts and instruments - that was the ideal place for the birth of this cultural institution, which has created a practically unique model in the panorama of Italian museums.

The exhibition will be open from June 20 to October 19, every day, from 9.30am to 6pm (Tuesdays 9.30am to 1pm).