This museum is a small gem containing works that once belonged to the Compagnia Maggiore di Santa Maria del Bigallo, which illustrate the life of the confraternity over the centuries. These include a [...]
The museum houses about one hundred items that are representative in terms of innovation, design and creativity, produced from 1960 to the present day. The collection is organized temporally or by [...]
The Porcelain Museum is in the 18th-century Palazzina del Cavaliere at the top of the Boboli Gardens, in the middle of the Rose Garden. It houses collections of table porcelain once belonging to the [...]
The first Italian museum about the Masonic ideology, established a few hundred meters far from Via Maggio, where, in 1731, a group of Englishmen, during their meetings in a hotel, founded the First [...]
The biomedical collections are conserved in the Careggi Hospital and consist of two sections: the Anatomy Museum, housing bone specimens (with a very rich collection of skulls), dry preparations [...]
Having become a museum, the historic gallery of the antiquarian Luigi Bellini occupies a noble residence by the Arno; of 15th-century origin, it was renovated at the beginning of the last century. The [...]
The initial core of the museum of Doccia is made of pieces collected in the 18th century by the founder of the manufacture, marquis Carlo Ginori; added to these were the sets created over the [...]
The Museum is a singular and fun collection of nails of all shapes, from all eras and for all uses. This collection was made over decades of activity by the carpenter and artist Giancarlo Masini.
Works by Sauro Cavallini are displayed in the house atelier and in the surrounding park on Fiesole's hills. The villa also hosts a Center for studies on the artist.
The American philosopher Charles Augustus Strong, in 1914, entrusted the construction of the villa and the garden to the English landscapist Cecil Pinset and the architecture historian Geoffrey Scott [...]
