Galileo Museum in Florence - Go!

If this is not the same as the science museum, please tell us where it's located.

The Galileo Museum is on all the maps including RS’s and is located next door to the Uffizi at the river.

The easiest and fastest way to get there is to go down Via Del Proconsolo, that becomes Via Leoni and then Castellani It’s at the end of the street at Piazza Guidici. Don’t let the street names confuse you it’s basically a “straight” line, just the names of the street change.

I think it's been called Museo Galileo for many years now although I too seem to think it was generally branded as the science museum >20 years ago, the first time we went.

https://www.museogalileo.it/it/

I agree with Arthur. We visited the museo this morning. If course, being a math and science guy myself, I might be a little biased.

We visited the Museo Galileo since my husband is a science and astronomy guy, but I enjoyed it also. However, it was very hot in the late afternoon (we visited on the way to Vespers at San Miniato), so for cool you might want to plan a morning visit.

My husband and I loved the Galileo Museum. Well, my engineer husband, more than I, but I found it interesting and different. The audio tour was excellent.

I want to stress that this museum can be enjoyed by anyone including kids. You do not need to be an engineer or Math major to really love it. In fact this museum is more about the state of the Renaissance mind of man and especially one man, Leonardo Da Vinci than it is about hard science.

it is a good hard look at how far we were advanced and the tools we were able to make to measure our world and the Cosmos. It is a compelling realisation of the staggering genuius of Leonardo.

One thing I came away with was the complete understanding of just why and how much threat this knowledge was to the Catholic Church of the time and why they feared it so much. These concepts and these instruments must have appeared as a new kind of magic or sorcery to those that could not grasp it’s concepts or understand how the tools worked.

In fact I suggest you go from this museum directly to the Church of Santa Croce where Leonardo and many of the great Renaissance artists are buried. Look at the Artists Tombs. Full of Religious iconography and altars...then go to Leonardos which is devoid of that and flanked by two other scientists, one of which is Enrico Fermi father of the Atomic Bomb. This juxtaposes the tension of the time between the religious and the scientific. And Santa Croce should not be missed either for it is a shining example of how and why the Church dominated for so long. It wowed the masses with “media” of astounding color, violence, titilation and fear.

In fact I think the Galileo museum is as much for historians as for scientists.