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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Cabinet of Drawings and Prints contains one of the most significant collections of graphic art in the world; begun around the middle of the 17th century by Cardinal Leopoldo de’Medici, it is still [...]
The Academy Gallery (Galleria dell'Accademia) in Florence is known around the world as the ‘ Michelangelo Museum’ (for the statues of David and the Prisoners), but it is actually much more than that [...]
The Galleria d'Arte Moderna is located on the second floor of the Pitti Palace, and is a museum where one can admire collections of sculptures and paintings spanning the period between the late 18th [...]
The museum is housed in the former Cenacolo (Refectory) of the Santo Spirito Convent (entrance on the left side of the façade). This evocative setting, adorned with 14th-century frescoes, houses the [...]
The Football Museum is located inside the FIGC (Federazion Italiana Gioco Calcio) Technical Centre of Coverciano (Florence) and showcases the past and present of the Italian national football team [...]
The Vasari Corridor ("Corridoio vasariano") was built by the celebrated architect Giorgio Vasari in just five months during 1565 to enable the Grand Dukes to move freely – and safely – from the seat [...]
The Franco Zeffirelli Museum in the building complex of San Firenze houses more than 300 works by the Florentine-born Maestro, including scene sketches, drawings and costume designs. It is an unusual [...]
Donated to the State in 1969, the collection comprises paintings (works by Cimabue, Andrea del Castagno and Giovanni Bellini), sculptures, including a fine Saint Lawrence by Bernini, majolicas and [...]
