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  • Introduction: vita brevis, ars longa
  • The early years: 1922-1927
  • The National History of Science Exhibition held in 1929
  • The Museo Nazionale di Storia delle Scienze: 1930-1945
  • Illustrious Visitors: 1931-1953
  • The Museo di Storia della Scienza from 1945 to 1961
  • The ideal Museum: projects never implemented
  • The dawn of a new age: 1962-1965
  • The Flood of 1966
  • The History of Science at the Museum: 1967-1981
  • Toward the Museo Galileo: 1982-2010
Museo Galileo: 1930-2010 : The Museo di Storia della Scienza from 1945 to 1961 : Image Gallery

Image Gallery

- Display cases containing Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti’s mineralogical collection placed in the loggia of Palazzo Castellani (c. 1950) - View of the library of the Institute around 1940 - View of the Institute’s library around 1950 - Plan of the Museum’s first floor (1952) - Pietro Pagnini - Maria Luisa Bonelli in the cosmography room (c. 1950) - In the 1954 arrangement, the Museum’s first room was dedicated to optics (telescopes excluded). View of the entrance hall with Bregans’ burning lens in the foreground - In the 1954 arrangement, the Museum’s first room was dedicated to optics (telescopes excluded). Panoramic view of the display cases containing microscopes - In the 1954 arrangement, the Museum’s first room was dedicated to optics (telescopes excluded). Detail of the display case containing early microscopes - Room I. Early microscopes - Room I. Eighteenth-century microscopes - Room II. Mathematical instruments - Room II. Mathematical instruments - Room III. Electrical instruments - Room IV. Cosmography (Santucci’s sphere and the globes) - Room V. The collection of Galilean memorabilia. The display case on the right contains the Accademia del Cimento’s glass instruments, and the telescopes of Torricelli and Cimento - Room VI. The collection of eighteen-century telescopes and those of Amici - Room VII. The Lorraine collection of mechanical models - Room VIII. The Lorraine collection of mechanical models - The chemistry room on the ground floor with Peter Leopold’s chemistry cabinet and the pharmaceutical jars - The chemistry room on the ground floor. Display case containing pharmaceutical jars, Wedgwood’s retorts and bust of Raffaele Piria - The medical instruments room on the ground floor. In the display cases are Brambilla’s surgical instruments. In the central case, the collection of Aperlo medals and on the wall the great portrait of Maurizio Bufalini - Electrostatic machines displayed on the ground floor - Poster of the Museo di Storia della Scienza (1950s)

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