The Museo Pietro Annigoni inside Villa Bardini is devoted to the eclectic artist who, in Florence in the creatively thriving period between the two world wars, experimented and expressed his [...]
The Museo Novecento, on piazza Santa Maria Novella in the premises of the former Leopoldine schools, is dedicated to 20th-century Italian art, presenting a selection of works from the civic [...]
The Bargello National Museum is a place of extraordinary interest. The evocative medieval building houses a unique collection of Italian sculpture, mainly from the Renaissance period (masterpieces by [...]
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 Marino Marini Museum, dedicated to the famous 20th-century Italian sculptor, is housed in the former church of San Pancrazio, where Renaissance lines are combined with modern renovation. It is a [...]
The museum, formerly the ‘Museum of the History of Science’ of Florence, is dedicated to the famous Tuscan scientist, Galileo Galilei, to whom we owe great astronomical discoveries and the birth of [...]
The museum is housed in a medieval house once owned by the rich and powerful Mozzi family , merchants and papal treasurers for several generations. Because of a series of financial misadventures, they [...]
The Synagogue Inaugurated in 1882, the Florence Synagogue is considered one of the most beautiful in Italy and is characterised by its large copper-green dome, part of the Florentine skyline. It was [...]
The Santa Maria Novella Complex includes a series of striking rooms, adjacent to the Basilica, decorated from the 14th century onwards. Of great impact is the Green Cloister, entirely frescoed by [...]
Occupying the first floor of the historic Convent of the Oblate Nuns, the museum has a rich collection of original items and reproductions illustrating the history of the human race from the Stone Age [...]
The Botany Section has the most important herbarium in Italy, with about four million specimens. It contains historic collections of dried plants, including one of the oldest (1563) still existing [...]
La Specola Museum, which is part of the Natural History Museum of the University of Florence, is the oldest scientific museum open to the public: it will celebrate its 250th anniversary in 2025! The [...]
The exhibition is dedicated to the fossils of large mammals, mollusks, and plants that illustrate the history of paleontology and are precious witnesses of the Earth's past. Of great impact are the s [...]
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 [...]
The St. Mark's Museum, commonly known as the ‘Beato Angelico's museum’, occupies the spaces of the former Dominican convent that Michelozzo rebuilt in Renaissanche style on the commission of Cosimo il [...]
The Museum was founded in 1869 by the anthropologist Paolo Mantegazza who pursued the intent to collect the testimonies of human diversity: 18 rooms display prestigious and rich ethnographic [...]
The museum adjoining the medieval Church of Santo Stefano al Ponte contains art works and other items of historic interest from buildings belonging to the diocese of Florence. There are a number of [...]
The palace is a fine example of an 18th-century upper-class residence and the collecting taste of its owners, and preserves the furnishings of the time. In 1738 the Martelli family transformed the [...]
Originally built in the mid-14th century for the Davizzi family and then acquired by the Davanzati in the 15th century, the palace is an extraordinary example of a 14th-century Florentine house, with [...]
