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.

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.