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Museo Zoologico La Specola

Scientific & Natural History Collection

17 Via Romana
Firenze,
50125

Neighborhood: Historical Center

Phone: +39 055 228 8251
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The museum's oldest core collection, like all of the Florentine museums, comes from the Medici collections. The Medici collected many natural treasures like fossils, animals, minerals and exotic plants. It was Pietro Leopoldo of Lorena who acquired the buildings and who created the Natural History Museum complete with its own library. At present the museum is more of a research institute, exhibiting to the public only a small part of the collection with examples of taxidermy and the prestigious collection of anatomical wax works. The most important parts of this collection come from an exponent of Florentine wax working, Clemente Susini (1754-1814).

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M. La Specola, what an experience !
I visited this remarkable exhibit right after the war....
Reviewed by:Jon T from on Dec 05 2005

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