2025 Italian Lessons, Sat May 03, 2025

Saturday

Walked to the Il Museo di Storia Naturale a Firenze (The Natural History Museum of the University of Florence) established 1775.
The museum is located in palazzo Torrigiani on Via Romana.
Fantastic place with wax anatomy figures, tonnes and tonnes of taxidermy.
Incredible place, especially the Zoologia section "La Specola" — A major collection of some 3 million zoological specimens, of which about 5,000 are on public display.
Interesting art as well mixed in with the science stuff.
One of the best museums in the world. I really liked it.

After the museum closed at 5pm, we walked to the Michalenglo square at Piazzale Michelangelo where they have a bronze copy of David.
The Giardino dell'Iris (Iris Gardens) closed at 6pm, we arrived at 5:50, so no entry. But the views were really nice and the weather was perfect.






Lunch at Rosalía before walking to the museum

walking to the museum via Piazza del Duomo

Piazza della Signoria

Market

Museum Il Museo di Storia Naturale a Firenze (The Natural History Museum of the University of Florence)

The wax replicas museum

Taxidermy — one of the world's largest collections

To the Porta San Niccolò

Vista Panoramica di Firenze

Piazzale Michelangelo (with a bronze replica of David)

Iris Garden

The Iris Garden open until 6pm and we arrived at 5:50pm, so sadly no entry today.

Walking back towards our apartment

Nuovo parco Michelangelo

Dinner at Luppolo Grano Firenze

What a day. That museum was really something unexpectedly amazing!