The Museum of the Specola, in Via Roman to Florence, is one of the sections of the Natural History Museum of Florence. In particular just in this building (Torrigiani Palace) found the nucleus centers them of the collections when the museum in the 1775 from Peter Leopoldo and entrusted to the direction of Abbot was institute Fontana. The idea was that one to re-unite all the scientific collections presents to the uffizi in an only "scientific" center, in which poets also to make search. To the specola in fact there is one astronomical tower and one astronomical series of instruments of calcono of the age of pregevole invoice. The laboratory in effects was considered the vanguard. Currently it has above all collections zoologico naturalistic some di.le which still today brought indeed astonishment.

1 zoologica Collection that covers nearly all the animal reign
 - 1,1 Invertebrates
 - 1,2 Resisted them
 - 1,3 Fish
 - 1,4 Birds
 - 1,5 Mammals

2 anatomical Collection
 -  the 2,1 Waxes of the plague of Gaetano Giulio Zumbo, commissioned from granduca Cosimo III de' Doctors between 1691 and 1694. They are of the small grotesque rappresentazioni of typical frightful taste macabro and of the 1600's, than ritraggono the effects of the plague, with particular attention to the horror and the decomposition of the bodies.

3 the Tribune of Galileo

The Tribune of Galileo
Only opened in special occasions it is a rare example of neaoclassico style in city. It was inaugurated in the 1841 from the last one granduca, Leopoldo II of Lorena, for III the Conference of the Italian Scientists, and as an example introduces a great statue of Galileo and some paintings dedicated to the scientific knowledge (of Nicholas Cianfanelli).