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Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza

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Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza is a museum, at a modelled elevation of 54 m. Poggio Casaccia stands 921 m to the north, 7.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Galleria degli Uffizi, a museum 0.1 miles away.

The story

Museo Galileo (formerly Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza; Institute and Museum of the History of Science) is located in Florence, Italy, in Piazza dei Giudici, along the River Arno and close to the Uffizi Gallery. The museum, dedicated to astronomer and scientist Galileo Galilei, is housed in Palazzo Castellani, an 11th-century building which was then known as the Castello d'Altafronte. Museo Galileo owns one of the world's major collection of scientific instruments, which bears evidence of the role that the Medici and Lorraine Grand Dukes attached to science and scientists. The Museo di Storia della Scienza re-opened to the public with the new name Museo Galileo in June 2010, after a two-year closure due to redesigning and renovation work. Its name change celebrates the 400-year anniversary of Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius (The Starry Messenger), first published in March of 1610.

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Dates from 1930.

Wikidata Q1668196, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

What to expect

Fee
Yes
Step-free access
Yes

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates43.76766, 11.25591

Named places within 25 miles

Artworks
Historic sites
Parks
Springs
  • Piazzale Michelangelo: 0.6 mi
  • Fonte Pecchioli: 4.6 mi
  • Fonte Mezzina: 5.2 mi
  • Fonte Giallina: 5.4 mi
  • Fonte della Caldaia: 5.9 mi
Peaks
  • Monte Cuccioli: 2.2 mi
  • Montepiano: 3.2 mi
  • Colle San Francesco: 3.3 mi
  • Monterivecchi: 3.3 mi
  • Monte Rinaldi: 3.3 mi
Attractions: 54
Gardens: 39
Picnic sites: 13
Waterfalls: 8
  • Tonfo del Diavolo: 7.3 mi
  • Pescaia Calvelli: 13.8 mi
  • Cascata di Meriggioni: 16.3 mi
  • Pisciolo di Macereto: 16.5 mi
  • Pisciolo di Sant'Antonio: 16.9 mi
Cliffs: 3

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 7.6 miles of Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Poggio CasacciaN 353°921 m7.4 mi
Poggio CapannelleN 356°839 m7.6 mi
Poggio TriniN 356°764 m7.1 mi
Poggio al GiroN 357°747 m5.9 mi
Monte RotondoN 354°705 m6.6 mi
Poggio PratoneNE 44°702 m6.3 mi
Poggio di FirenzeSE 128°693 m7.5 mi
Poggio BallettoN 356°690 m5.5 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:2017:4918:27
June solstice05:3420:1721:01
September equinox07:0318:3719:15
December solstice07:4615:5416:41

Local time (Europe/Rome).

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

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