Address: C.so Garibaldi, 2
Telephone: 0546/25499
The museum, which is run by the Torricelliana Society of Science and Literature of Faenza, is a collection of relics and papers of Evangelista Torricelli, a distinguished physicist, mathematician and scholar of geometry, a student of and successor to Galileo Galilei, famous, above all, for having invented the mercury barometer.
Explaination: The museum and library (with over two thousand volumes, cultural and scientific publications) are housed in two beautiful halls with frescoes in Palazzo Laderchi, and house relicts and “torricelliane” papers that make up the nucleus of the Faenza Exhibition of 1908, organized for celebrating the third centenary of the birth of this great physicist. The most significant objects in the museum are manuscripts signed by Torricelli and by contemporary scientists, barometers of the XIX and XX centuries and a replica of a Torricelli barometer, two models of Torricelli telescopes, various scientific instruments dating between the XVII and XX centuries, a portrait of the scientist by Piancastelli, a vase in majolica with biquadratic parabola sections, a model of an airship designed by Vincenzo Pritelli, two astrolabes, an hour ring and celestial globe by Coronelli. The Torricelliana Society of Science and Literature was founded in 1947 for protecting the memories of the scientist from Faenza and for developing scientific culture in Faenza.
Weekdays: Wednesdays from 10 to 12 (or by appointment - Tel. 054622482 Mrs. Bertoni)
Period open: all year round
Entrance fee: free
Directions: From the motorway exit proceed along Via Granarolo towards Faenza Centro; at the roundabout after the railway fly-over turn left into Viale IV Novembre. At the second set of traffic lights turn right into Via Mura Mittarelli. At the next traffic lights turn right again. The third turning on the right leads to the car park in Piazza XI Febbraio from which Corso Garibaldi can be reached by going along Via Bertucci.
