Italian Museums

The Biblioteca Ambrosiana, in Milan, first opened in the 17th century.

The Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies, Venice.

Museums of the city of Venice.

Exhibits include daily life in the Middle Ages, medieval art & artifacts, and arms & armor.

Housed in the Palazzo Bagatti Valsecchi, the museum is a sort of 19th century re-creation of a Renaissance palace, with original artwork and reproductions.

The Museum, part of the University of Bologna's Department of Astronomy, houses a collection of astrolabes, gnomons & sundials, clocks, astronomical quadrants, telescopes, armillary spheres, globes, maps, and other mathematical, meteorologic, topographic and nautical instruments.

The Institute and Museum of the History of Science, in Florence, is one of the foremost internatio nal institutio ns in the history of science, combining a noted museum of scientific instrument s and an institute dedicated to the research, documentat ion and disseminat ion of the history of science in the broadest senses.