The museum is situated within the Palazzo Torrigiani. It is known as "La Specola" from the Astronomical Observatory on the first floor, founded by the last Grand Duke of Tuscany in 1841. The Observatory is decorated with paintings and frescoes representing famous Florentine scientists.
The museum's most important collection is located on the second floor: it consists of anatomical wax models made between 1775 and 1814.

via Romana. Tel. 055 2288251 - fax 055 225325
e-mail: specola@specola.unifi.it
Open: 9-13; Closed Wednesdays
tickets: 5.00 € - 2.50 €