The Science and Technology Foundation is dedicated to the preservation and promotion of scientific culture and knowledge. The museum itinerary begins from the Physics Laboratory and ends with the observation of the marvellous displays of the Gallery of the Laboratory of Natural Sciences. The instruments of the Physics Laboratory introduce the visitor to the knowledge of 19th century Physics and reproduce the classification of the subjects of that period: hydraulics, optics, acoustics, mechanical physics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, meteorology, electrostatics, electricity and magnetism, electricity applications. Lastly, the Gallery of the Laboratory of Natural Sciences engages the visitors thanks to the quality, uniqueness and beauty of the displayed findings: rocks and minerals, fossils, herbariums, taxidermied animals, liquid formulas, anatomic, botanic and zoological models in wax and productions linked to the most important branches of the 19th century industry and manufacture.
The FST is also Florence’s planetarium, and this area can be visited by individuals upon reservation on Sunday afternoons; You can travel across space thanks to a 3D Map of the universe just like you were on a spaceship, reaching nebulae, galaxies and planetary systems.