Library resources, services, events, exhibitions and special collections

Did you know that Florence University has a heritage of more than 4,000,000 items, not a few of which are rare and precious? 

The University gives visibility to this treasure through exhibitions, publications and presentations of books, advertising of documentary collections belonging to personalities and institutions related to Florence University. Why don't you take a look at our Events and Exhibitions session to be updated on all the ongoing initiatives and to access the numerous virtual exhibitions available?

Among the exhibits, we particularly suggest the virtual exhibition that proposes and integrates the Unexplored Treasures exhibition. The Libraries of the University of Florence on display (Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, 15 February-23 June 2017), because it can give you a concrete idea of ​​the heritage of our libraries. The exhibition itinerary winds through ancient printed specimens, manuscripts and other documentary sources of great interest, bearing witness to the evolution of the humanities, medicine and surgery, botany and zoology, law, agriculture and architecture, also with reference to Florence.