News Archive 2019
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- "Cucina d'epoca" festival (in Italian)
The Museo Galileo at the “Cucina d’epoca” festival in Genoa.
Thanks to a cultural donation ("Art bonus") two 18th century scientific works have been restored.
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September 15, 2019, at 3.30pm
Costs: included in the museum's entrance fee
Reservations not required; for information: tel. 055 265311
The event will be held in Italian; recommended to children over 6
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An afternoon reading for families with children
A series of conferences related to the exhibition about the Trajan Column, which is currently running until October 6, 2019, at the Limonaia of the Boboli Gardens in Florence.
The Museo Galileo library maintains the section "Bibliographic resources"
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September 4, 2019, at 4.00 pm in Piazza del Mercato Centrale, via dell'Ariento, Florence
Duration: about 60 minutes
Limited seats, reservations required at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The event will be held in Italian and is recommended to children aged 7 and over
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The Mercato Centrale in Florence will host the marbling workshop conceived by the Museo Galileo.
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Sunday 4 August, 2019, at 11.00 am and 4.00 pm
Duration: 90 minutes
Costs: included in the museum's entrance fee
Limited seats, reservations recommended: tel. 055 265311; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The event will be held in Italian. Recommended to children over 7.
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Museo Galileo joins the initiative "Le notti dell’archeologia” with a special workshop on the materials used for the construction of scientific instruments.
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The latest issue of the journal Nuncius has been published by Brill (Vol. 34, issue 2, 2019).
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July 3, 2019 at 6.00 pm at Mercato Centrale, via dell'Ariento, Florence
Duration: about 60 minutes
The event will be held in Italian. Free admission subject to availability
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The Mercato Centrale in Florence will host the presentation of the exhibition “The art of building a masterpiece: the Trajan Column".
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The project "Museo Galileo bridges the gap" broadens its horizons and reaches Pointe Noire in Congo.
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June 18, 2019 at 6.00 pm in Piazza del Mercato Centrale, via dell'Ariento, Florence
Duration: about 60 minutes
The event will be held in Italian. Free admission subject to availability
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The Mercato Centrale in Florence will host the launch of the exhibition “Leonardo and his books. The library of universal genius".
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June 12, 2019, at 4.00 pm in Piazza del Mercato Centrale, via dell'Ariento, Florence
Duration: about 60 minutes
Limited seats, reservations required at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The event will be held in Italian and is recommended to children aged 7 and over
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The Mercato Centrale in Florence will host the marbling workshop conceived by the Museo Galileo.
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Rediscovered, after almost 800 years, the astronomical and symbolic functions of the marble zodiac of San Miniato al Monte.
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- Fiumicino Airport
- Comitato Nazionale per la Celebrazione dei 500 anni dalla morte di Leonardo da Vinci (in Italian)
Pdf resources- Press release (in Italian)
To mark the occasion of the fifth centenary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, the Fiumicino Airport pays tribute to the great genius with an exhibition that includes Leonardo's spectacular flying machines and animations of his drawings.