If you are planning a visit to Florence, it is essential to know the timetables of the main places of interest. In the section Map, Guide and Multimedia you can download useful guides and updated opening hours of museums, churches and monuments of the city. Nevertheless, before departure, it is important to get informed about some places, which are temporarily closed due to restoration.
Every first Sunday of the month, also for 2024, state museums are free for everyone; city museums are also free, but only for residents.
Vasari Corridor, the passageway between the Uffizi and Pitti Palace has finally reopened!
The Basilica di San Miniato al Monte is under restoration (end: autumn 2025), but still visible. For guided tour on the scaffoldings
In April 2022 began the restoration of Bardi Chapel, painted by Giotto (scenes of Saint Francis’ life) inside Santa Croce church, so guided tours of the frescoes won't be possible throughout the duration of the work.
The Baptistery of San Giovanni (Duomo) is visible (the restorations of the ceiling mosaics continues - Online bookings for the guided tours).
To visit "Michelangelo's Secret Room", located inside the Medici Chapels, the reservation is mandatory . For information and reservations please contact Opera Laboratori at www.operalaboratori.com; +39 055 294883.
On January 19, Orsanmichele, museum and church, reopens to the public with an impressively revised museum layout.
Many museums in Palazzo Pitti, after a renovation have definetely reopened: The Museo della Moda e del Costume (Fashion and Costume Museum), the Monumental and Royal Apartments. The Porcelain Museum, located on the highest point of the Boboli Gardens, on the contrary, is still closed for restoration.
After the restoration works the Brancacci Chapel is now regularly open!
The Specola museum, which is part of the University of Florence's Natural History museum system, has reopened, on February 22nd, after a complete refurbishment.
The Villa Medicea di Careggi is still closed for restoration.
The restoration work on Ponte Vecchio will begin in November 2024 and will be completed, with the interventions on the front elevations, in the summer of 2026.
Some new museums have recently been opened in Florence: Hzero, the Model Railway Museum with an imposing model and miniature trains in motion, and the Museum of Russian Icons in the Pitti Palace. MUNDI, the National Museum of the Italian Language, should officially open within 2025.
