It is time to celebrate the largest and the oldest public museum in europe! Open to the public in 1775 today, La Specola Museum celebrates its 250th anniversary. La Specola, which is part of the Natural History Museum of the University of Florence, started as the personal collection of the Medici family. The museum takes …
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February 18th, 1743 Anna Maria Luisa, the last descendent of the Medici family, died. She was a forward thinking woman and she was fundamental in defining Florence as the city of art for which it is now known the world over. Among her achievements was the “Patto di familia” which established that the Lorraine, the …
The Vasari corridor will be open to the public from December 21st, 2024 after 8 years of restoration. It was November 2016 when, in a short period of time and due to security reasons, the decision to close the corridor was taken. The Vasari Corridor is an aerial passageway that connects Uffizi Gallery to Pitti …
Happy Fibonacci day! Today is time to celebrate mathematics. Fibonacci day is November, 23rd. Why? Because today’s date 11/23 (1,1,2,3,5,8,13….)is the beginning of sequence named after Leonardo Pisano, aka Fibonacci. He was a medieval Italian mathematician who wrote Liber abaci (1202; “Book of the Abacus”), the first European work on Indian and Arabian mathematics, which …