Art & Technology

Photographing the Duomo – an Intern’s Experience

Caitlin Beverly Caspersen is one of the interns who worked on the project to photograph the Duomo in High Resolution. Here is her testimony. I do not need to tell you that Florence is one of...

Virtual Florence Duomo: Students photograph in High Resolution

Whether visiting Florence and its Duomo is a dream or a memory, the news that you can now see the inside of the building virtually is sure to interest you. Student interns at Syracuse University...

Google and National Library of Florence sign digital book agreement

Google and the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage reach agreement to digitize works from Italian libraries including Florence’s BNCF. Google and the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage (MiBAC) announced on March 10th a...

Live blog: Museums, Libraries and Archives in contemporary life

Live blogging from the conference held in Florence on January 22 2010 at Teatro della Pergola. The title of the conference is “Essere stati e’ ancora una condizione per essere?” a quote from F....

Florence Science at Palazzo Medici and La Specola

Wondering what to do in Florence on a Monday (when many museums are closed)? Palazzo Medici Riccardi is always open on Mondays (it’s closing day is Wednesday). Now through May 9, 2010, you get to...