Museums of Tuscany

Pisa - Museums

Museo del Camposanto Vecchio

Pisa - Museums

Museo dell'Opera del Duomo

Located in the Palace of the Canonici of the Cathedral, it exhibits works by the monuments of Piazza dei Miracoli with bas-reliefs, capitals and the Treasury of the Cathedral with silverware, furniture and a collection of Egyptian antiquities from theEtruscan and Roman Galleries of the Cemetery.

Florence - Museums

Galleria degli Uffizi

Its origins date back to the year 1560. It is the most famous Italian gallery and one of themost famous in the world. Its collection consists of an immense artistic heritage from medieval to modern.

Castiglion Fiorentino - Museums

Uno scrigno prezioso: il Sistema Museale di Castiglion Fiorentino

Chiusi - Museums

Museo diocesano della cattedrale

The Diocesan Museum of the Cathedral was established in 1932. Towards the end of 1986 it was expanded and renewed at the hands of Alberto Giglioli. In 1990, four new rooms were opened in the Palazzo Vecovile.

Murlo - Museums

Antiquarium di Poggio Civitate

The Antiquarium of Poggio Civitate was created in 1988 and contains a large number of archaeological finds. The most valuable is a princely home that testifies to the importance of the Etruscans in the Ombrone Valley. In the Museum there is also a workshop that deals with archaeological restorations.

Serre di Rapolano - Museums

Museo dell' Antica Grancia

The Ancient Grancia Museum provides an articulated route that offers the public the opportunity to learn about the processing of wine and oil in the ancient grain deposit called “grancia”. Particularly interesting is the space dedicated to olive growing and the preservation of oil, which took place in the appropriate ziri in the twentieth century.

Sarteano - Museums

Museo Civico Archeologico

Located in the sixteenth-century Palazzo Gabrielli, the Civic Archaeological Museum was founded in 1997 in Sarteano.

San Gimignano - Museums

Museo d'Arte Sacra

It contains the works of famous sculptors like Giuliano da Maiano, Benedetto da Maiano and Bartolommeo di Fredi

Pienza - Museums

Museo Diocesano

The headquarters of the Diocesan Museum of Pienza was inaugurated in 1998 inside the Bishop's Palace. The museum is divided into eleven rooms along which are exhibited ecclesiastical works coming from the Duomo and the surrounding territory. The most important work is located in the fourth room and depicts the “Stories of Our Lady”, of Saint Margaret of Antioch and Saint Catherine of Alexandria, donated to the Pope by Thomas Paleologist.

Siena - Museums

Museo ed Oratorio della Nobile Contrada dell'Oca

One of the districts of the Palio, with a crowned goose coat of arms, which bears a blue ribbon with the cross of Savoy and with colors green and white.

Siena - Museums

Museo di Storia Naturale e dell'Accademia dei Fisiocritici

The Museum of Natural History of the Academy of Sciences of Siena was created in 1691 with the foundation of the Academy. Since 1996 it has been part of the Sienese Museum System.

Siena - Museums

Pinacoteca Nazionale

Siena - Museums

Museo ''Bologna-Buonsignori''

The private collection Bologna-Buonsignori was donated to the City of Siena at the end of '800. It consists mainly of archaeological Etruscan, paintings and ceramics. A section is devoted to numismatics and jewelery.

Siena - Museums

Museo Anatomico

Inaugurated in Siena in 1862, the “Leonetto Comparini” Anatomical Museum has a predominantly educational purpose. The highlight of the museum is the collection of more than 1000 skulls and the many anatomical drawings.

Siena - Museums

Museo archeologico nazionale di Siena

The museum houses the artifacts (mainly of Etruscan origin) of the archaeological excavations in the province of Siena

Siena - Museums

Museo Civico

The Civic Museum is located in a building built between the end of the 13th century and the first half of the eleventh century. Inside it is possible to view many frescoes such as “The Majesty”.

Montalcino - Museums

Museo Storico del Vetro e della Bottiglia "J. F. Mariani"

The Historical Museum of Glass and the Bottle “J. F. Mariani” is housed in the rooms of the Castle of Poggio alle Mura di Montalcino. It collects different collections of glass art from the Egyptians era up to the works of the Venetian masters. There are rare bottles dating back to the 18th century by English masters as well as a collection of bottles mounted on art Nouveau silver.

Montalcino - Museums

Museo Civico e Diocesano d'Arte Sacra

The Civic and Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art was inaugurated in 1958 at the headquarters of the former Convent of Sant'Agostino di Montalcino. It includes 12 rooms that extend over three floors and present materials and works of Medieval and Modern art from the Province of Siena and the surrounding area. The most significant work is that depicting the Madonna with the Child by Luke di Tommè.

San Gimignano - Museums

Palazzo Comunale - Pinacoteca - Torre Grossa

It was built in the 13th century and became the head office of the comune. It is believed to have been designed by sculptor Arnolfo di Cambio. Sala di Dante where the general council met is one of the famous rooms of Palazzo. It is well decorated with tournaments, allegorical figures and beautiful hunting scenes. Lippo Memmi produced great Virgin and child painting that has made Palazzo del Podesta famous. Sala delle Adunanze Segrete is where the citizen government met. It is from this room that the fascinating climb to Torre Grossa begins.

Prato - Museums

Museo Civico: Galleria di Palazzo Pretorio

Monsummano Terme - Museums

Museo della Città e del Territorio

The Museum of the City and Territory is located in the old Osteria dei Pellegrini of Monsummano Terme. The Museum exhibits materials related to the history of the settlements of the Valdinievole and to the reclamation of the Padule di Fucecchio. Divided into sectors, stands out the section dedicated to the “Treasure of Mary Most Holy of Fortenuova” where objects of sacred art are collected.

Monsummano Terme - Museums

Museo di Arte Contemporanea e del Novecento

The Museum of Contemporary and Twentieth Century Art is located inside Villa Martini and was established in 2000. It exhibits contemporary works by artists such as Pietro Annigoni and Vinicio Berti. The Museum periodically organizes exhibitions of sculpture, painting and graphics not only by Italian artists but also of artists of international importance.

Monsummano Terme - Museums

Museo di Casa Giusti

The Museum of Casa Giusti was established in 1992 as a National Museum and is located in the home of the poet Giuseppe Giusti. The museum space is divided on two floors where documentary materials from the life of the poet are exhibited, thus retracing, even through a virtual journey, the splendid poetic production of the nineteenth century.

Monsummano Terme - Museums

Museo del Santuario di Fontenuova

The Museum of the Sanctuary of Fontenuova was founded by the parish priest of the Sanctuary as a place for conservation and exhibition of sacral works. Of particular interest are the works of the venerated Madonna di Fortenuova and some objects from the Treasure of the Sanctuary. The Museum was also enriched by various objects donated by the faithful and the Church of Monsummano Alto.

Larciano - Museums

Museo Civico

The Civic Museum has been housed, since 1975, inside the Castle of Larciano. The exhibition includes archaeological finds from the national and local territory. We can therefore admire you several polychrome majolica, incineration tombs and metal objects that date from a period ranging from prehistory to the modern age.

Pistoia - Museums

Centro Documentazione Marino Marini

The Marino Marini Museum is currently home to both the Documentation Center, inaugurated in 1979 in the halls of the Palazzo Comunale di Pistoia, and the Marino Marini Foundation established in Pistoia in 1983. It also houses a library equipped with everything on Marino's activity with monographs, catalogues, art magazines and a complete collection of newspaper articles. The Tau complex is also part of the museum.

Abetone - Museums

Museo della Gente dell'Appennino Pistoiese

The Museum of People of the Pistoia Apennines was created to keep alive and above all transmit the culture of the people of this part of the Apennines. Materials began to be collected during the 1970s and this meant that we can observe a considerable amount of objects today. This structure allows you to maintain a close relationship with the people of the country. Among the various sections, the Toy Laboratory and the Didactic Section of Wool stand out.

Pistoia - Museums

Museo della Cattedrale di San Zeno

The Museum of the Cathedral of San Zeno is located inside the cathedral located in Piazza Duomo. It dates back to the 19th century and preserves the ecclesiastical heritage. The museum also presents the history of the ancient medieval palace of the bishops of Pistoia. Inside the Museum there are the furnishings of the cathedral “Relic of the Ghiberti”.

Pistoia - Museums

Museo Diocesano

The Diocesan Museum of Pistoia was initially positioned at the Bishop's Palace, but since 1990 it has been based in Palazzo Rospigliosi. It was founded in 1968, to show the public an exhibition of the ecclesiastical heritage and present the history of sacred art. This also offers a collection of historical documents and prayers written on stone. The museum is open to the public.

Pistoia - Museums

Museo Civico

The civic museum is located in the Municipal Palace and is arranged on two floors. At the first we find tables with paintings and ancient works, sixteenth-century works from the 13th century to the sixteenth century; on the second floor we have works of Florentine and Pistoia painting.

Pisa - Museums

Domus Mazziniana

Domus Mazziniana is the building where the Italian politician, philosopher and journalist Giuseppe Mezzanini lived. The main purpose of the building is to spread and deepen the studies and works of the character through the collection of documents belonging to his life. The house was declared a national monument on 20 April 1910.

Volterra - Museums

Pinacoteca di Volterra

The Palazzo Minucci Solaini houses the Art Gallery of Volterra. Since 1982, it houses the Pictorial Municipal Gallery ordered by Corrado Ricci in 1905. It has works from different origins. A collection of artworks of the city.

Pisa - Museums

Museo dell'Istituto di Anatomia Umana Normale

The Museum of Human Anatomy was established under Leopold II of Lorraine. Inside it houses collections of osteology, syndesmology, splanchnology, angiology, archaeology such as mummies and funeral kits and wax models. Some of these findings are very important for research and study.

Pisa - Museums

Museo Anatomico della Facoltà di Veterinaria

Pisa - Museums

Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Reale

The Museum of the Royal Palace, residence of the dynasties of the Medici and of the Lorraine, it preserves collections, some owned by the Medici-Lorraine and other by private individuals. A rich collection including paintings by Italian artists of the fifteenth and the nineteenth century.

Pisa - Museums

Museo Nazionale degli Strumenti per il Calcolo

The Museum of Calculation Instruments was founded in 1989 with the aim of preserving and restoring the scientific instruments received up to us. The exhibition is divided into three parts: scientific instruments, calculators and large calculators. The exhibition is accompanied by exhaustive explanations that help the visitor to better understand the route.

Pisa - Museums

Museo ed Orto Botanico

The Museum is housed in an eighteenth century palace in the botanical garden. The garden has a collection of plants and trees also of historical significance, with a magnolia planted in 1787.

Pisa - Museums

Museo delle Sinopie

It is located inside the New Hospital Building (1257).  The preparatory drawings (large preparatory drawings: the original idea the masters) have been found beneath the frescoes of the Cemetery. They are useful for the study of masterpieces.

Pisa - Museums

Gipsoteca del Dipartimento di Scienze Archeologiche

The Gipsoteca of the Department of Archaeological Sciences was established during the nineteenth century at the headquarters of the University of Pisa. It houses a collection of chalks wanted by Gherardo Gherardini, which was later increased by Lucio Mariani and Silvio Ferri. The installation was transferred to the church of San Paolo all'Orto proposing finds ranging from the Greek archaic age to specimens of the Hellenistic and Roman ages.

Pisa - Museums

Museo Nazionale di San Matteo

Interesting is the story of the collections of this museum. This is the culture of the city to recover antiquities from the early eighteenth century and the collections of of Cemetery of the Accademia di Belle Arti in 1816.

Pisa - Museums

Collezioni Egittologiche dell'Università di Pisa

Pisa - Museums

Camposanto Monumentale

The Cemetery is converted into an art gallery with the most precious heritage: thefrescoes by artists such as Piero di Puccio, the "Master from Triumph of Death", andpreparatory drawings or preliminary sketches of the masters.

Massa - Museums

Museo Diocesano

The Diocesan Museum was established in 2003 and is set up inside the Palazzo dei Cadet. Inside there are sacred vestments, works of art and liturgical coming from the churches of the territory of Massa and from the cathedral of San Pietro and San Francesco. Among the most important works there is a statue depicting “San Leonardo” by Jacopo della Quercia and a marble sculpture depicting the 'Pietà' of Felice Palma.

Massa - Museums

Museo Etnologico delle Apuane

Founded in 1980 by order of Don Luis Bonacoscia, the ethnographic and anthropological museum consists of a surface area of 976m square that includes a collection of agricultural-pastoral civilization of Lunigiana.

Lucca - Museums

Museo di Arte Contemporanea

Museum of Contemporary Art Lu.C.C.A. (Lucca Center of Contemporary Art) The museum is set up within Palazzo Boccella, an old building a few steps from the Market Square. Here are held exhibitions of contemporary art. Worth visiting!

Lucca - Museums

Museo della Liberazione 1943-45

The Liberation Museum 1943 — 1945 is located in some rooms of Palazzo Guinigi, in the historic center of Lucca. The Museum was built in 1988 by a group of veterans of World War II. In the five rooms of the Museum there are photographs and writings, uniforms and relics, illustrating the contribution made by the citizens of Lucca to the liberation of the territory of the province of Lucca.

Lucca - Museums

Museo e Pinacoteca Nazionale di Palazzo Mansi

The Museum and the National Art Gallery are located inside Palazzo Mansi. The palace dates back to the 16th century. The Museum was set up to present to the public a collection of the family heritage by the Mansi Family, owners of the building since 1616. The Palace underwent deep restorations, completed in 1977. These works gave the building a very luxurious look.

Lucca - Museums

Museo della Cattedrale

Since 1992, at the Museum of the Cathedral of Lucca, the furnishing works of the Cathedral of San Martino have been preserved. The works are arranged in chronological order, in order to better expose historical changes to the public. A room is dedicated to the Holy Face preserved in the cathedral of San Martino. The Museum of the Cathedral of Lucca is located on a building complex.

Lucca - Museums

Museo del Risorgimento

It occupies part of the Palazzo Ducale and illustrates the period between the unification of Italy and the First World War. A rich collection where you can see weapons of various ages from different countries.

Lucca - Museums

Gipsoteca dell'Istituto d'Arte "Augusto Passaglia"

The Passaglia Gipsoteca, located inside the State Institute of Art “A.Passaglia”, is of eighteenth-century origins. It has a large collection of documents and works of mythology made of plaster, found directly from the archaeological areas. It represents a fairly important cultural point in Lucca, which is open to the public.

San Romano in Garfagnana - Museums

Museo Naturalistico del Parco dell'Orecchiella

The Naturalistic Museum is located in the rooms of the Orecchiella Park built in the 1960s. In the museum there are elements of the nature of the protected area. The museum is full of symbolic elements that leave space in the imagination of visitors. The Naturalistic Museum was conceived as a school of nature where you can learn about nature teaching.

Pescaglia - Museums

Casa Museo dei Puccini

The House Museum of Puccini is located inside the ancient sixteenth-century house that belonged to the ancestors of the well-known Italian composer Giacomo Puccini, where he spent his childhood and youth. Precisely for this reason the Museum aims to exhibit materials and relics that tell in chronological order the life of the great artist.

Forte dei Marmi - Museums

Museo della satira

The Museum of the Fort for Satire and Caricature is located in Fort of Leopold I and is a center for conservation, collection and study of all materials concerning the history of satire and world caricature. The museum's heritage consists of original, contemporary and past drawings, a library with over 1000 specialized volumes, a video library and a multimedia archive.

Livorno - Museums

Museo Virtuale d'Arte Contemporanea

Here you can see the works on display at the 1st  Biennale of Livorno (1974), also theirarrangement is the same. There are images of works from the collections acquired prior to the Biennale (Premio Modigliani) or at that time.

Livorno - Museums

Museo di Santa Giulia

The monument consists of three buildings: the church of Santa Giulia, the Oratorio diSan Ranieri and the Museum of Santa Giulia, which houses interesting works ofreligious art, as a former school board Giotto depicting S. Giulia.

Livorno - Museums

Museo Ebraico Marini

The premises of the Marine Museum houses the permanent exhibition "1938 - TheJewish School of Livorno: an alternative to the racial laws. " This exhibition provides a summary of the most significant stages of the anti-Semitic fascist regime.

Rosignano Marittimo - Museums

Museo di Scienze Naturali

The Museum of Natural Sciences was opened to the public in 1966, thanks to the collections collected by the children housed by the mountain colony of Gavinana. The Museum is managed by the Association “Friends of Nature of Rosignano” established in 1992, which aims to know the territory and the dissemination of information on scientific culture. Outside the structure there is a botanical garden with plants typical of the Mediterranean scrub.

Rio Nell'Elba - Museums

Museo dei Minerali Elbani

In Rio Marina, is worth visiting the Tonietti Collection which is housed in the Museum of Elban Minerals. There are about a thousand samples of rocks and minerals that Tonietti began gathering at the beginning of the sixties with the assistance of the mines of Elba staff.

Marciana - Museums

Museo dell'Arte Contadina

At Marciana, at the old town, you can visit the Museum of the Country Art of Elba. Like all museums that refer to the history of folklore, the lounges feature testimonies of the rural past of the Elba, with objects and materials dating from the XIX and the XX centuries, especially relating to the production of wine.

Marciana - Museums

Museo Civico Archeologico

The Archaeological Museum of Marciana was born in the 1968, below the medieval castle. In the halls of the museum is now possible to admire materials dating prehistoric times, Etruscan and Roman periods. During the summer, the museum is only accessible during the morning.

Livorno - Museums

Museo Mascagnano

The museum at Villa Maria presents the life and work in chronological order of the composer Pietro Mascagni, with personal items, memorabilia and documents and an extensive archive.

Livorno - Museums

Museo Provinciale di Storia Naturale

It is located in Villa Henderson, with a vast collection of botany, zoology, mineralogy, geology and paleontology. Perhaps the most striking is the exhibition hall of the sea, with the reconstruction of the marine environment of the Mediterranean.

Portoferraio - Museums

Museo Civico Archeologico

The Archaeological Museum of Portoferraio has a small but very attractive structure.In the inside you can see archaeological finds of land and sea discovered aboard of the Roman ships wrecked near the Elba.

Portoferraio - Museums

Museo Nazionale di Villa San Martino

At Portoferraio you can visit Villa San Martino, a museum dedicated to Napoleon, who was to be his summer residence but where he didn't attend to muc. Now it is mainly used as an art gallery that displays engravings from 1984 with theNapoleonic subject and with historical exhibitions.

Portoferraio - Museums

Pinacoteca Comunale Foresiana

An almost obligatory stage in Portoferraio is the Pinacoteca Foresiana which is housed in the barracks De Laugier. The gallerybears the name of Mario Foresi, its creator and includes paintings and prints by important artists including Signorini, Cannicci Lapi and others.

Portoferraio - Museums

Museo Naturalistico

The Naturalistic Museum of Portoferraio deserves a special visit, which is actually located on the island of Monte Cristo, and that since 1977 it has become a nature reserve for the protection of the present biodiversity. The museum houses collections relating to the flora and fauna of the island finds coming from the seabed. Visits are allowed only by prior arrangement.

Populonia - Museums

Museo Archeologico del Territorio di Populonia

The Archaeological Museum of the Territory of Populonia di Piombino, was opened to the public in 2001. The Museum preserves finds from the ancient territory of Populonia that date back to prehistoric, Etruscan and Roman times. Inside there is a center of experimental archaeology, which deals with the processing of stone and ceramics.

Castiglione della Pescaia - Museums

Museo Archeologico

The Archaeological Museum is also known as the Museum of Isidoro Falchi, a doctor who carried out excavations at the end of the nineteenth century, discovering ruins of the Etruscan housing centers and the necropolis of the city of” Vetluna”. The objects, which belong to the State, are shown in the windows in a chronological and topographic order. The peculiarity of the Archaeological Museum is that it is also accessible to a blind public.

Sorano - Museums

Museo del Medioevo e del Rinascimento

The Museum of the Middle Ages and Renaissance is located in the interiors of the fourteenth-century fortress of the Orsini. Medieval and Renaissance ceramic materials are on display and there are also frescoes from the sixteenth-century period. Among the ceramics are interesting some glazed windows dating from the 16th to the 18th century found in medieval wells also called “butti”.

Scansano - Museums

Museo Archeologico

The Archaeological Museum of Scansano was inaugurated in 2001 and preserves archaeological finds from the ancient age found in the Albegna Valley and finds from the Etruscan town of Ghiaccio Forte. The Museum welcomes materials from the excavations carried out by the Archaeological Superintendence of Tuscany and also the sections related to the production of wines of Southern Tuscany.

Bruscoli - Museums

Museo Storico Etnografico

The Historical Ethnographic Museum was founded to enhance the history, customs and customs of the peasant civilization of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines. The structure preserves geo-archaeological finds from the remains of the medieval castle and found from an ancient road, from Roman times. In addition, some World War II objects are set up inside.

Tavernelle - Museums

Antiquarium di Sant'Appiano

The well-known Antiquarium was placed inside the rectory of the Pieve di Sant'Appiano in 1991. The exhibition halls collect materials from the archaeological area of Semifonte and from the necropolis of San Martino ai Colli. Of great importance, it is a pagan idolet in stone, dating back to the second century AD.

Borgo San Lorenzo - Museums

Museo della Civiltà Contadina di Casa d' Erci

The Museum of Peasant Civilization of Casa d'Erci is located in the rooms of a large farm in Grezzano. It was established in 1983 and contains agricultural and peasant objects from the Luco di Mugello. The purpose of the Museum is to remember and preserve the objects of peasant life. We can also find bedrooms, cellar, kitchen, etc.

Florence - Museums

Galleria Rainaldo Carnielo

The gallery is located in a building that was the house-studio of the sculptor Rinaldo Carnielo and best testifies to the work of the master. The building was built during which Florence was the capital of Italy. The works are characterized by the diversity of artistic currents of the second nineteenth century. The numerous bas-reliefs are a sign of the purity of Renaissance forms, thus explaining the influence that the artist had from the Florentine art of the '400.

Florence - Museums

Casa Museo "R. Siviero"

The building, previously, was the residence of the intellectual Radolfo Siviero. Inside we can admire the sculptures and landscape paintings of the '400 by Flemish Jan Frans Van Bloemen. Passionate about the collections, Siviero, has collected over the years many works of ancient art including: Etruscan finds, Roman statues, gold background paintings from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, terracotta, bronzes, furniture etc. Given the importance of the works within it, the Tuscany Region entrusted the museum to the Association of Friends of the Florentine Museums.

Borgo San Lorenzo - Museums

Museo Comunale della Manifattura "Chini"

The Municipal Museum of the Chini Manufacture was built in 1999. Since December 2011, in addition to the ancient ceramics of Chini, new collections provided by different collectors are also exhibited. The Museum is located on the first floor of the Villa Pecori Garibaldi.

Vinci - Museums

Museo Leonardiano

The Leonardian Museum was founded in 1953 with the contribution of the International Business Machines Corporation that donated to the city of Vinci a series of models rebuilt on the basis of Leonardian drawings. The Museum offers an in-depth study and an adequate presentation not only of Leopardic mechanical technology but also of its scientific and technical studies.

Vinci - Museums

Casa Natale di Leonardo da Vinci

The Birthplace of the great painter Leonardo da Vinci is located in Anchiano. In this house he spent his entire childhood. At that time the house was part of the Villa del Ferrale by Lords Masetti. After some major restorations, the house was reopened to the public from 22 June 2012.

Firenzuola - Museums

Museo del Paesaggio Storico dell' Appennino

The Museum of Historical Landscape of the Apennines is housed inside the ancient Abbey of St. Peter a Moscheta. It performs the function of a documented center on the history of the Apennines that is interested in all the transformations of the landscape.

Impruneta - Museums

Museo del Tesoro di Santa Maria

The Treasure Museum of Santa Maria was inaugurated in 1987 and is located in the Basilica of Santa Maria dell'Impruneta. The museum site is accessed through a door on the left side of the façade of the Basilica. The most significant treasures are represented by the “Reliquary of the Holy Cross” by Cosimi Merlini the Elder and a stylish cross by Lorenzo Ghiberti.

Empoli - Museums

Museo della Collegiata di Sant' Andrea

The Museum of the Collegiate Church of Sant'Andrea was founded by the Empoli Vincenzo Salvagnoli. The Museum site is divided into eight rooms arranged on two floors among which stand out the works of Giovanni Pisano with his “Madonna and Child” and the “Annunciation” by Francesco Botticini.

Firenzuola - Museums

Museo della Pietra Serena

The Museum of Pietra Serena was founded in 1999 and represents the celebration of the famous stone of Firenzuola and the ancient stone stone tradition. The museum site is divided into several sections among which the work in the quarry stands out and that of the artifacts of the daily newspaper. The last spaces are dedicated to art stone and its work by the master stonemasons.

Poppi - Museums

Museo Forestale "Carlo Siemoni"

The “C. Siemoni” Forest Museum was founded in 1982 and only in 1992 it was moved to its current headquarters. It was born in honor of Carl Siemoni, one of the greatest administrators of the forests of Casentino. The museum is one of the most important at national level since it is possible to see sections of logs, wood affected by insects, framed specimens and many wood samples of forest species. However, there are also rocks and plastics here.

Castiglion Fiorentino - Museums

Pinacoteca Comunale

The Municipal Art Gallery is located in the former sacristy of the Church of Sant'Anna di Castiglion Fiorentino. Several goldsmiths are collected inside it, such as the thirteenth-century Holy Cross of French manufacture and the canvas of “St. Michael the Archangel” by Bartolomeo della Gatta.

Montevarchi - Museums

Museo Paleontologico dell'Accademia Valdarnese del Poggio

The Paleontological Museum is part of the Valdarnese Academy of Poggio. The original collection was established in 1809, thanks to the donation of the first collection, by the Monaco of Vallombrosa, Luigi Molinari. The materials are set up in the nineteenth century, with forty windows exhibited in three galleries. The Museum houses 1600 exhibits. Among them we find vegetable fossils and an interesting collection of animal fossils, between the age of the Upper Pliocene and the Lower Pleistocene.

Arezzo - Museums

Casa Vasari

This palace was purchased in 1540 by the painter, architect and art historian Giorgio Vasari. Even though the artist was busy with his travels throughout Italy, he did not give up taking part in the construction. The palace, after the painter's death, passed into the hands of several families until in 1911, the State decided to buy it and make it a museum open to the public.

Arezzo - Museums

Casa Museo Ivan Bruschi

The museum is located inside the medieval palace of the Capitano del Popolo, precisely in front of the Parish Church of Santa Maria, the ancient house of Bruschi. The building dates back to the 13th century; in the fourteenth century it was owned by the Camaiani family; later, in the fifteenth century it was owned by the city government.

Arezzo - Museums

Museo Archeologico Statale Gaio Cilnio Mecenate

It is the most important archaeological museum in Arezzo. It spreads over two floors. On the ground floor there is a topographic presentation, on the second floor a thematic exhibition with objects of palaeontology, prehistory and numismatics.

Florence - Museums

Museo della Casa Fiorentina Antica

Museo dell'Antica Casa Fiorentina is located in Palazzo Davanzati and was inaugurated in 1956 by the great antiquarian Elia Volpi, who bought the palace in 1904. The museum was inaugurated under its current name, as it reflects the appearance of an ancient Florentine house with furnishings from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century. Inside the museum we can find a diversity of collections, from the collection of archaic ceramics and hand warmers of the 18th century in the shape of a shoe, to sculptures, paintings, furniture, lace, etc.

Florence - Museums

Museo "S. Ferragamo"

By the will of Wanda Ferragamo and her children, the Salvatore Ferragamo Museum was inaugurated in 1995: which is located in the same headquarters of the company. The purpose of the foundation of the museum is to disseminate the history of its founder and the creations he created “Made in Italy”. The museum has a rich collection of more than 10,000 shoes.

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Museo di Palazzo Vecchio

The Museum of Florence is a fourteenth-century structure inside the Old Palace. At its origins, it was called the “Palazzo dei Priori” and later changed its name several times. Inside the Museum, there are wonderful rooms in which the magnificent works of Donatello, Verrocchio, etc.

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Museo di S.Marco

The origins of the Museum of San Marco date back to the fifteenth century. The National Museum is located in an old Dominican convent located in Piazza San Marco in Venice. Inside the Museum we can admire paintings from the sixteenth century, part of the best collection of paintings in the world. These are works of extraordinary beauty, including some by Blessed Angelico. Many fascinating frescoes are found in the cells that once hosted the monks.

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Museo Stibbert

On the hill of Montughi, Florence lies the Stibbert Museum which has more than thirty six thousand artifacts drawn from Western and Eastern civilization. These artifacts were collected by the founder of the Museum Fredrick Stibbert; there are also collections from allover collection kept here in the honor of Fredrick.

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Convento di San Marco

San Marco, Florence is a religious place which houses a church and a convent. The convent has now been turned into a museum which has its own reputation; it was the home of the famous Dominicans, Fra Angelico the painter and Girolamo the preacher. The convent also houses the collection of manuscripts which are of great value.

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Ospedale degli Innocenti

The building was initially started as a children orphanage, later turned into a hospital and after its closure it was converted into a Museum which currently houses Renaissance art. There is a lot to learn in this building ranging from the building designs which have been used in its construction as well as the artifacts housed here.

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Museo archeologico Nazionale

Build in 1870 and transferred to its current location, the Museum holds thousands of collection from different parts of the world. Here the visitors will get to see the first collections of Medici family, the famous Etruscan collections, the roman artifacts and the huge collections of ancient Greece.

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Museo Galileo

A university of Florence Museum which was founded in 1927 is home to hundreds of collections, one of them a finger the famous Galileo’s finger. The museum also houses many artifacts, most of which are known to be the pioneer in the scientific world; you will find world globes, telescopes and navigation equipments.

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Cappella Brancacci

It is found in the Santa Marie Del Carmine Church in Florence, popularly known as Sistine Chapel; it was the most influential and famous during the fourteenth century. To access this chapel one has to use the neighboring convent. The church and the Chapel are opened at different times therefore one has to visit one at a time.