Museo Storico della Cartografia Italiana

About the museum

The museum is a permanent institution of the Istituto Geografico Militare in Florence, which is based in the former convent of the Santissima Annunziata, in Via Cesare Battisti. It preserves, promotes and encourages the study of cartographic documentation of Italian territory, from flat representations to three-dimensional ones, together with the theories, methods and instruments used over the centuries to produce them.

It is divided into two sections: the Biblioteca “Attilio Mori” and the Museo Strumenti. The original core of the book and map holdings was formed from collections of the cartographic institutes and bodies of the pre-unification states, which left the IGM valuable items such as the works of Tommaso Borgonio, active in Piedmont in the 17th century, and of Giovanni Antonio Rizzi Zannoni, author of the first geodetic map of the Kingdom of Naples. The Museo Strumenti holds more than five hundred scientific instruments of various types.

Highlights

• Geographic and cartographic library “Attilio Mori”
• More than 500 scientific instruments
• Works by Tommaso Borgonio and Giovanni Antonio Rizzi Zannoni
• Housed in the former convent of the Santissima Annunziata

Permanent exhibition

• Museo Strumenti e Biblioteca “Attilio Mori” – Scientific instruments for surveying and representing the territory, and a collection of historical books and maps.

Founded

1927

Operated by

Istituto Geografico Militare

Visitors per year

approx. 5,200

Admission & discounts

Admission is free.

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