A herd of dinosaurs in flesh and bone is coming to Florence. They will remain in between the trees and plants of the Botanical Garden for a few months. These dinosaurs will be rebuild according to their real features. But the real ones, in….bone (the meat is gone by now) will be at the nearby Museum of Geology and Paleontology.

More than a century of football history on display at Coverciano
Ranging from Maradona’s jersey to the World Cups won by Italy, from Paolo Rossi’s mythical 20 in the World Cup in Spain to a vast collection of postage stamps from all over the world on the subject of football, the Museo del Calcio in Coverciano, Florence, offers an extensive and fascinating panorama of Italy’s best loved sport.

Dinosaurs, astrolabes, carnivorous plants, even flayed human figures made in wax
And, as well, rare and century-old plants, minerals, fossils, exotic and extinct animals, telescopes and a planetarium, that is a reproduction of the vault of heaven.
You can find all this, and much more, in the Florence science museums, some of which were left as a heritage to the city by her past lords: the Medicis, the Lorraine.