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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.

La Thek@ Favaro è un archivio integrato sulla vita e l’opera di Antonio Favaro, uno degli attori principali della storia della scienza italiana fra il secondo Ottocento e l’inizio del Novecento.

The Rete Toscana Musei Scientifici (Tuscan Science Museum Network) is organizing a free event in the restored garden of Villa La Quiete.

On September 19, the prize-giving ceremony of the second edition of the Premio Barnaba. Un museo una storia was held at Pieve Santo Stefano, as a satellite event of the Premio Pieve Saverio Tutino award ceremony. The Premio Barnaba is a literary contest dedicated to unpublished autobiographical short stories, which is promoted by Museo Galileo in collaboration with the Fondazione Archivio Diaristico Nazionale and sponsored by ICOM Italia and Associazione Nazionale Musei Scientifici.

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.

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.