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The Galileo Museum (former Museum of the History of Science) in Florence is located in Piazza dei Giudici, just behind the square of the Uffizi, the Palazzo Castellani, a strict medieval building with three floors. Holds one of the most important scientific collections nationally and internationally.The June 8, 2010, two years after closing for renovations, the Museum of the History of Science has reopened to the public under the new name of "Galileo Museum. Theinauguration coincides with the 400th anniversary of the Starry Messenger, the work published in March 1610 by which Galileo popularized the sensational
discovered he made with the telescope. The palace stands on the site of the ancient castle of Altafronte, dating from the late eleventh century, which was the fortress that protected the Arno river port and part of the circle of ancient walls of Florence.
The palace was covered by a heavy restoration in the early nineteenth century and for a time housed the collection of manuscripts from the National Library, until the '20s of the twentieth century. Among prestigious institutions that have taken place in the building we cannot forget the Academy of Crusca and Deputation of Homeland History in Tuscany. Since 1930 the public land, to which the palace belongs, has awarded the Institute and Museum of the History of Science, which now occupies the entire building. In 1839 it was restored by the architect Francesco Leoni.The museum was opened in 1930 and collects valuable scientific instruments in part from the Medicee collections, once exhibited at the Museum of the Observatory near Palazzo Pitti, in part from the collections Arcispedale of Santa Maria Nuova, in part through acquisitions and other donations. One of the
larger rooms contain a collection of old globes and spheres, with a magnificent armillary sphere in carved and gilded wood used for complex astronomical calculations, made by Antonio Santucci between 1588 and 1593.
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