Galileo Museum (Museo Galileo) Tours and Activities

The Galileo Museum, formerly known as the Institute and Museum for the History of Science, filled with scientific instruments that date back to the 13th century, including a telescope Galileo once used. Ancient barometers, globes, microscopes, quadrants, and more delight both science and history enthusiasts. There is also a giant sundial on the premises. Choose your time of entry to the Galileo Museum, and skip the lines when you arrive.

Explore the life and scientific legacy of one of the most famous Florentines on a private tour revolving around Galileo. Visit the astronomer’s namesake museum to learn about his life and see historic telescopes, and pay tribute at a forum and statue dedicated to him at the Observatory Museum. After learning about Galileo’s controversial theories and discoveries, finish the journey in front of his tomb inside the Basilica of Santa Croce.

Welcome to Florence! Would you like to introduce your children to the man that revolutionized science, leaving an indelible legacy which still affects our lives today? Our Galileo Galilei Tour for Kids in Florence is an excursion the whole family will enjoy. With an expert English- speaking guide, history and science come to life to inspire and delight one and all. You will learn all about the life and scientific discoveries of Galileo Galilei, an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, considered one of the most important revolutionaries in the field of science.

This tour suitable for those who want to visit the city of Florence actively. It starts from the Ponte Vecchio and along the Arno you come to an ancient and secret staircase. From here you go up to Piazzale Michelangelo, the terrace that reveals a unique view of the Renaissance city. Piazzale Michelangelo was built in the nineteenth century as a tribute to the creativity of the great Florentine sculptor Michelangelo Buonarroti. At the center of the large square stand the nineteenth-century reproductions of the most important sculptural works of the immense Genius, including the famous David. We will continue on a further staircase to visit the Basilica of San Miniato al Monte, a pearl, a Romanesque Basilica on the slope. The view of Florence from the San Miniato hill is stunning. Another place to visit in San Miniato is the Cemetery of the Holy Doors, a monumental graveyard where rests, among other great Florentines, also Carlo Collodi, the writer of the tale of Pinocchio.

Discover Florence through art and history and be amazed by the myths and legends told by your guide. Marvel at Italian Renaissance art by some of the greatest artists of all times. Discover the artistic masterpieces in the most visited Renaissance gallery in the world: the Uffizi Gallery. Take a close look at the works commissioned by the Medici family: see what is hiding in the mouth of Caravaggio's Medusa, look for dogs, cats, flowers, animals and domestic objects in Renaissance paintings and let us reflect on their meaning together. Let us try to understand why the bed of the Virgin Mary has only one pillow in Botticelli's painting Botticelli's Annunciation. And again: let's discover the flying machine in Leonardo da Vinci's painting, the scorpion and the bird in Raphael's paintings, the details of the faces of the Medici family children and much more! Find out the answers to these and other questions during this treasure hunt!