Florence Museums:Main Museums to Visit in Florence,Italy
Florence is already an open-air museum, but there are also museums that offer children of all ages the chance to enjoy a bit of art and culture, with activities appropriate to their age. Here are 5 family-friendly museums we suggest you add to your …
The Uffizi Gallery, Italy's Top Visited Museum - Visit Florence
The Uffizi Gallery is one of the world's top art museums - it houses some of the most important works of the Renaissance, including works by Leonardo da Vinci, Giotto, Botticelli and Michelangelo. Lots of sculptures too.
The Bargello National Museum - Visit Florence
Primarily a sculpture museum, you'll be treated to early Michelangelo marbles, Giambologna bronzes and Cellini statues. Continue on to a room full of famous works by Donatello, considered by many the greatest sculptor since antiquity.
The Innocenti Museum in Florence
The museum is housed within the centuries-old Institute degli Innocenti and allows the public to enter its doors to glimpse its six centuries of history, its architectural spaces created by Brunelleschi and to the masterpieces housed within, which includes works by Botticelli and Domenico Ghirlandaio.
Booking Florence Museums: How to Book/Buy Uffizi & Accademia …
One way to not waste time in lines is to pre-book museum tickets, certainly for the Uffizi Gallery and Accademia Gallery, which are Florence's most visited museums. Here's how and where to book Florence museum tickets!
Accademia Gallery in Florence: Home to Michelangelo's David, …
The Musical Instrument Museum. If you go crazy for opera, theater and classic music, the Accademia is one of the best places you should visit. It hosts in fact the Grand Ducal collection of forty instruments exposed in the museum wing belonging to the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory.
The Opera del Duomo Museum - Visit Florence
OPA has over 700 years of serving Florence’s Cathedral. The Opera del Duomo, also known as the "OPA", is the the Cathedral Workshop or "works commission" and was founded by the Republic of Florence in 1296 to oversee the construction of the new Cathedral and its bell tower.
The Duomo in Florence, the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in ...
The famous cathedral dome dominates the skyline of Florence, with its eight white ribs against a background of terracotta tiles. Close up it is so huge as to be quite overwhelming.
The San Marco Museum - Visit Florence
The Museum of San Marco is worth visiting for its architecture alone. This consists of the former Dominican convent restored and enlarged to its present size for Cosimo the Elder de' Medici by his favorite architect Michelozzo (1396-1472).
The Opificio delle Pietre Dure Museum - Visit Florence
The Museum of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence takes you into the workshop of semi precious stones that created magnificent works of art, today dedicated to the restoration of masterpieces.