Temporary exhibitions
2008
A different way of regarding Benozzo’s frescoes in the Chapel of the Magi for better understanding the relationship between painting, economy and technology in 15th-century Florence.
2008
The exhibit highlights the marriage between art, science and political power, emphasising the prominent role that physical mathematical disciplines played in Tuscany during the 16th-17th centuries.
2008
A brief history of Florentine astronomy in the 18th-19th centuries.
2008
A virtual journey through the history of the telescope to understand the enormous impact the instrument had on science and society in the 17th century.
2007
The typological evolution of the garden in the ancient world: from place of otium and leisure to place devoted to meditation, study and experimentation in the naturalist and technical spheres.
2007
An ideal itinerary through the city of Florence to visit its monumental gnomons. The census of Florentine sundials is available online.
2006
Thanks to artworks, reconstructions and films, the exhibition explores the very mode of thinking of the "universal genius" and his unitary conception of knowledge as the effort to assimilate the laws governing the operations of man and nature.
2005
An interactive exhibition running through the steps which led to the birth of contemporary physics.
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2005
A striking journey through the shapes of numbers covering the period from Euclid’s codification (3rd century BC) to the threshold of non-Euclidean geometry (19th century).