La Specola museum reopened its doors to visitors on 22 February, after being closed for renovation and modernization of facilities at its historic location in Palazzo Bini Torrigiani on Via Romana. The event is part of the program dedicated to the centenary of the University of Florence.
It will be a larger museum in terms of visiting itineraries and content, with works that have been restored, others cleaned up, and still others recovered and newly displayed.
Visitors will be able to admire two completely new wings of the museum, dedicated to mineralogy and wax works, with never-before-exhibited works such as the extraordinary botanical waxes. They will also find the zoological and anatomical waxes collections (only with guided tour). Because 'La Specola' is new and ancient at the same time, an almost unique reality. The first among science museums to open its doors to citizens according to the Enlightenment project of Grand Duke Peter Leopold of Tuscany, among the few to have a venue that has historical value in itself.
All information on tickets and bookings: specola.sma.unifi.it