Museums

UFFIZI

Home of the famous Galleria whose very name “gallery” found its origin here. Here are world class masterpieces such as the Venus and La Primavera by Botticelli, La Maestà di Giotto, The Venus of Urbino by Titian, Bacchus and the Sacrifice of Isaac by Caravaggio.

ACADEMY

Here are hosted many important works of art, the most famous attraction here is the David of Michelangelo. Millions of tourists flock each year to admire his greatest masterpiece of the “Divine”. Here you can also learn that the “piano” which was first created in Florence at the hands of Bartolomeo Cristofori.

PITTI

The largest, most representative palace in the city, was a Medici residence but also a “royal” residence at the time of Florence when it was the capital of Italy. Home to several important museums and temporary exhibitions. There’s a park behind the palace known as Boboli, the very first “Italian Garden” in the history.

BARGELLO

Was originaly a government palace before the Old Palace (Palazza Vecchio) was built later transforming it into the”Bargello”, which is the name for the head of the “police” It was also a prison-building. It was brought back to its original importance and restored to give life to the first “national museum” in the occasion of the 600th anniversary of the birth of Dante (1265-1865) whom we can see one of his very first portraits in this very palace. It is currently the most important exhibition of Florentine Renaissance sculpture.

GAILEO GALILEI MUSEUM

One of the least known but never the less very important. A journey through time to discover the tools that made our history and the man who helped to think, design and build them, Galileo. Renewed in 2009 to celebrate the four-hundred th anniversary of the invention of the telescope. It is today one of the most surprising Florentine museums.

OPA MUSEUM

Let’s discover together the cathedral, the baptistery, Brunelleschi, Giotto, Ghiberti and much more. Just when you thought you knew everything about the great florentine religious centre: here you can see how the dome was built, what was the ancient façade and see the original Ghiberti’s Gate of Paradise, but also discover the fantastic statuary of the bell tower!

MUSEO DEGL’INNOCENTI

Another hidden gem of Florence, a museum that is also one of the oldest institutions of this city. Maybe the most representative site showing the real soul of Florence and the Florentines. Here we can get a glimpse of the personality of this city like no other monument can. The “Istituto Degl’Innocenti” is one of the best examples of Renaissance architecture, today home to the museum that tells us the stories of the “innocents” who were orphans whose struggle is documented here. A touching journey in the lifes of people so distant in history but so close to our hearts.

BARDINI

designed by Stefano Bardini, the most authoritative Italian antiquarian of his time, this museum is nothing but the result of his donation to the City of Florence. The palace was bought and restructured by Bardini himself at the end of the nineteenth century to carry out his activity, transforming it into an evocative neo-renaissance palace, which also housed a series of workshops, where the works of art were restored and then sold to the market.