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Timings : Monday - Sunday: 9:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Closes at 1:00 PM on Tuesdays.

Entry Fee : Adults: EUR 13
Children (aged 6 to 18) and over 65s: EUR 7
Children (under 6): Free

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Museo Galileo, Florence Overview

The Museo Galileo is a science and history museum in the Piazza dei Giudici in Florence. The museum has a collection of significant scientific discoveries dedicated to the gifted Pisa-born scientist Galileo. The most well-known Galileo telescope is present here.

Another noteworthy instrument is Evangelista Toricelli's Mercury Barometer, designed by him in 1643. Cosimo Ⅰ, the Medicis and the Lorraine dynasty have donated most of the ancient scientific instruments to the museum. These instruments include clocks, telescopes, globes, and so on. Interactive exhibits allow us actually to know how some of these worked. Galileo's two of his fingers and a tooth are present in the museum.

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About Galileo

Galileo has made some essential contributions to the scientific world. He observed that falling acceleration depends on mass. He improved upon the telescope and saw the four moons of Jupiter and the terrain of the moon through it. Unfortunately, the Roman Catholic Church placed him under house arrest for life for his then controversial statements that the earth revolves around the Sun.

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