Firenze

Located in Palazzo Panciatichi, seat of the Tuscan Region this museum concerns Tuscany during the Etruscan, Roman and Medieval period.

Recently restored, the San Lorenzo basilica’s cellar was once the seat of the Compagnia del Santissimo Sacramento, and today hosts the main nucleus of the Museum of the Treasure of San Lorenzo (Museo [...]

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 [...]

In 1221 the Dominican Friars founded this workshop, where balms, ointments and pomades were prepared. A series of products, including refines perfumes and liqueurs prepared according to ancient [...]

The Museo dell'Opera di Santa Croce is built around the two cloisters at the side of the famous Franciscan Basilica. The evocative rooms include first and foremost the Pazzi Chapel, a Renaissance [...]

Opificio or manufacture: the museum focuses on the output and history of the Court Manufacture established by Ferdinando I dei Medici in 1588, which was specialized in pietre dure, magistral inlay of [...]

The collection comprises berlin and other carriages used at court in the 18th and 19th centuries, plus old horse harnesses. It is open by appointment only, waiting for a suitable placement in the [...]

The Museo delle Cappelle Medicee consists of various rooms, all of inestimable value. These include the New Sacristy by Michelangelo, and the sumptuous Chapel of the Princes, pantheon of the Medici [...]

The Museum of Costume and Fashion in Florence, located inside the Palazzina della Meridiana next to the southern wing of Pitti Palace, is one of the most important Italian institutions dedicated to [...]

The Museo della Misericordia (Florence's Brotherhood of Mercy museum) in Piazza del Duomo in Florence, bears witness with objects and works of art to the long history of this important charitable [...]

The Foundation has two main groups of items originating from the 19th-century collections of the Cabinet of Physics and the Cabinet of Natural History, together with the Technology Museum of the [...]

The museum houses the collection built up by Herbert Percy Horne, a collector and scholar of English origin who settled in Florence at the end of the 19th century. He furnished a small 15th-century [...]

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 [...]

This museum collects the historical and artistic heritage of the ancient Spedale degli Innocenti, a building designed at the beginning of the 15th century by Filippo Brunelleschi, in order to welcome [...]

The cycling museum dedicated to the Tuscan champion Gino Bartali, is located in Ponte a Ema, the village close to Florence where the great cyclist was born and started his career. It is a three-storey [...]

Rebuilt at the beginning of the 20th century on the site of the Alighieri home, the house contains exhibits illustrating life in Florence at the time of the great poet Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), one [...]

The National Archaeological Museum, one of the most important, of this kind in Italy. houses masterpieces of the Etruscan, Greek-Roman and Egyptian art. It's inside the 17th century Palazzo della [...]

The Italian Memorial was wanted, designed and placed in Block 21 of the Auschwitz camp by the Anned (National Association of ex-deportees in the Nazi camps) thanks to the collaboration of an [...]

The Palatine Gallery and the Royal Apartments occupy the whole of Palazzo Pitti’s piano nobile. The gallery was established in the late 18th and early 19th centuries by the Lorraine, who hung a mass [...]

Palazzo Gucci is located within the historic Palazzo della Mercanzia, a landmark dating back to 1337 in Florence’s Piazza della Signoria. The Palazzo serves as the House’s cultural destination, with [...]