Temporary exhibitions

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Women of the Sky: From Muses to Scientists
Celestial splendors. Observing the Sky from Galileo to Gravitational Waves
Trajan Column: The Narration of a Symbol
The City of the Sun
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Beautiful Minds. Nobel Prizes: A Century of Creativity
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2004

The centennial exhibition of the Nobel Prize (in Italian only).

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Machina Mundi: Images and Measures of the Cosmos from Copernicus to Newton
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2004

A journey through the universe illustrating the various representations elaborated by astronomers and scientists between the 16th and 18th centuries.

Leonardo's Automobile
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2004

Digital reconstructions and working models of Leonardo da Vinci's self-propelled cart (in Italian only).

Vitrum: Glass between Science and Art in the Roman World
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2004

The making of glass objects and devices as a contribution to increasing the scientific and technological knowledge of antiquity and a basis for the “scientific” rediscovery of this material in the Renaissance.

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Cycling through Time
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2004

The most important phases in the development of two-wheeled vehicles, emphasizing their political and symbolic meaning in the context in which they appeared.

Time of Nature: Cyclic Nature and Non-Reversibility of Natural Phenomena

2003

A journey through the time of nature – from ultra-long periods since the Earth was formed and life evolved to ultra-short periods of chemical reactions.

Time Matter Space: Measuring Instruments from Antiquity to the Present Day

2003

Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman instruments are evidence of the long journey of mankind towards precise measurements of dimensions and time.

Ferri per guarire: Lancets and Surgical Instruments from the 18th and 19th Centuries

2002

Surgical instruments and treatises illustrate the development of surgery from the second half of the 18th century until it was finally acknowledged as an independent discipline in the 19th century.

Development of the Plough in Lorraine Tuscany

2002

The crucial role of Tuscany for scientific research and technological innovation in agricultural sciences during the 18th and 19th centuries.