Housed inside the 15th-century Palazzo Corsini, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei is the oldest scientific academy in the world. As its statute states: “It has the purpose of promoting, coordinating, integrating and disseminating scientific knowledge in its highest expressions within the framework of the unity and universality of culture…” The Accademia dei Lincei holds a rich collection of more than 600,000 volumes scientific, historical, literary astronomical, physical and botanical.