La Specola Museum (Florence)

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Several generations of the Medicis had collected with passion great artistic treasures, but also a wide range of natural treasures like fossils, animals, minerals and exotic plants. This material and the new addition, which includes also a very large collection of books from all over Europe, was used by the enlightened Pietro Leopoldo di Lorena, with the aid of the abbot Felice Fontana (1730-1805) to create a Museum of Natural History opened to the public ... www.florenceholidays.com/florence-vacation-museums-spec...

The Specola Museum takes its name from the «Specola», its astronomical observatory, and includes several important zoologic and natural history collections.
The most famous one is the collection of anatomical wax models: over 600 unique pieces from the 18th Century ... www.firenze-oltrarno.net/english/arte/museodellaspecola...