Points of interest

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...

Set up to preserve local historic roots and with a clear educational mission, the Ethnographic Museum is divided into three sections: geo-archaeological materials uncovered during excavation of the...

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 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 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 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...

A permanent exhibition focusing on glass manufacturing in the Valdelsa, which sprang up in the 13th century and was a mainstay of the local economy for centuries. In Renaissance times Gambassi glasses...

The tenor Amedeo Bassi was born in Montespertoli, near Florence. His career started here, he became popular in the theatres of all over the world. The museum in his native town shows documents and...

The Museum occupies part of the Palazzo Ghibellino, which stands on Piazza Farinata degli Uberti, the heart of Empoli city center. Palazzo Ghibellino faces the Collegiate Church of Sant'Andrea and is...

The Museo Civico is in the 15th-century Palazzo del Podestà in Montaione and contains prehistoric and archaeological finds ranging from the Lower Palaeolithic to the Late Middle Ages. The highlight of...