Other Florence Museums
The Uffizi Gallery is surely the most famous museum in Florence but there are others equally important: the Accademia Gallery (where Michelangelo’s most famous work of art, the David, is housed), the Medici Chapels, the Bargello and the museums within Palazzo Pitti are just a few of the other interesting museums with rich collections of artworks to see.
Once you’re in Florence, time will seem to fly by and you certainly don’t want to waste it in lines waiting to buy tickets and enter into the museums!
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You cannot come to Florence and not see the world’s most most famous sculpture, Michelangelo’s David ! What you see outside Palazzo Vecchio is just a quite dirty copy placed where the original stood for centuries. The original marble statue (and more of Michelangelo’s work and hundreds of paintings) are at the Accademia, a definite-must on your list of top things to see in Florence!
Do you love sculpture? This museum has many sculptures as well as other works of art from the Renaissance, including works by Michelangelo and Raffaello.
See the inside of the seat of power in Florence for centuries: the impressive Salone dei Cinquecento and the Monumental Quarters where the Medici lived, the wonderful map room and more! The special tours offered “guided” by a character from the past also make the museum a great place for visiting with children.
See another side of Florence that is often overlooked: the modern works of art that Florence continued to inspire well after the heyday of the Renaissance. Just don’t expect contemporary art – the sumptuous palace that once housed the Grandukes of Lorraine offers major Italian paintings and sculpture from the end of the 16th century to the early years before World War I.
Visit the extraordinary chapels built to house the mortal remains of the great Medici family, from the crypts to the Chapel of Princes to the New Sacristy with Michelangelo’s sculptures of Night and Day as well as Dawn and Twilight.
Palatina Gallery and Royal Apartments »
Visit the richly decorated rooms and private apartments that once housed the Medici, the Grand Dukes of Tuscany and the King of Italy. The walls are all almost completely covered by the extraordinary collection that includes works by Raphael, Titian, Caravaggio, Rubens, Pietro da Cortona and many other Italian and European masters from the Renaissance up to the 1600s.
The Medici and Grand Dukes of Tuscany did not just collect paintings and sculptures; the Silver museum brings together all of the precious items collected by the ruling families of Florence, from vases covered in precious stones, cameo and gold jewelry, rock crystals, ivory vases and the “Salisbourg Treasure” of religious silver items that gives the museum its name to the Chinese and Japanese porcelain collection from the 15th century.
The San Marco museum offers the greatest collection of works by Fra Angelico, a Dominican friar at San Marco as well as an Early Italian Renaissance painter. While his art is all of religious themes, you cannot remain unmoved by the stunning beauty of his Annunciation and literarily see the advancements from Gothic to early Renaissance in these works meant just for spiritual contemplation.
Think of a jigsaw puzzle and its interlocking pieces and imagine creating a painting with its many tones and blendings of colors with pieces of stone that need to fit all together like a puzzle: here lies the beauty and genius of the works of art created by this workshop, especially set up in Florence by the Medici. A true treasure in Florenece’s museum, this is definitely a gem that not many people know about. We highly recommend it!
If you’re interested in ancient cultures, here you’ll find the best in Florence in one museum: from the ancient Etruscans to the Romans, from the Greeks to the Egyptians. Bronze sculptures, marble statues and a great collections of ceramics and gold jewelry.
The magnificent gardens lying being Palazzo Pitti designed at the time of the Medici created the layout that came to be known as the Italian garden copied by European courts. Experience a sense of the times, walking along the lawns dotted with Renaissance statues, large fountains and ponds, grottoes and relax your feet on a bench hidden behind the tall ornamental shrubs.
Don’t just go see the Leaning Tower of Pisa: CLIMB to the top!
Climb up the Leaning Tower:
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After years of studies and works, the Leaning Tower of Pisa has stopped its descent toward the ground and the public can once again climb to the top! We’ve gone to the top ourselves, we believe the climb is truly a unique experience: by the look of the worn down steps, you’ll know exactly where thousands before you have gone. A once in a lifetime experience we highly recommend!
Are you planning a visit to Rome?
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If you’re visiting Rome, you cannot miss going to the Vatican Museums: the Sistine Chapel, the Raphael rooms, several sculpture museums, works by Leonardo da Vinci, Giotto, Fra Angelico, Caravaggio and much much more. Everywhere you look there is something to see – thousands visit each day, avoid the line by buying your tickets now!
