One of the most under explored museums in Florence has to be La Specola. When I visited I was practically the only visitor, walking through rooms and rooms of ornate taxidermy and botanical models, it's hard not to feel that in any other city this could easily be the main attraction. The famous anatomical wax models were originally used to teach medicine, nowadays you're more likely to find artists sketching the strange silent bodies in these corridors. The museum is certainly worth a visit if you want to get away from the crowds and marvel, tucked away around the corner of the Pitti Palace on Via Romana the back even leads out into the Boboli gardens – what more could you want from a Natural History Museum?
