Galileo Science Museum (Museo Galileo),National Museum of Bargello (Museo Nazionale del Bargello), Florence

When the visual arts declined in the 1600s (abused and co-opted by political powers), music and science flourished in Florence. The first opera was written here. And Florence hosted many scientific breakthroughs, as in this fascinating collections of Renaissance and later clocks, telescopes, maps, and ingenious gadgets.

- Rick Steves Italy

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