Museums & Activities

Since over seven centuries Palazzo della Signoria, better known as Palazzo Vecchio, is the symbol of civil power of the city of Florence.

The Museo Novecento is dedicated to the Italian art of the 20th and 21st century and offers a permanent collection and many temporary exhibitions, art installations and special projects. The museum is located in the ancient Spedale of the Leopoldine in Santa Maria Novella Square.

On Thursday 22 September 2022, on the occasion of Florence Art Week, the museum is open and free to the public from 11am - 8pm.

The first Medici palace, the home of Cosimo the Elder and Lorenzo the Magnificent and the workplace of artists of the calibre of Donatello, Michelangelo and Botticelli. The Renaissance house where it all began.

The complex of Santa Maria Novella was born in the first decades of the Thirteenth century after the settlement of the first Dominican friars in Florence and gradually expanded itself during the following centuries.

The Brancacci Chapel is a precious Renaissance jewel preserved in time: the stories’ cycle of San Peter is commissioned by the merchant Felice Brancacci to Masolino and Masaccio in the twenties of the Fifteenth century.

The museum takes its name from its creator Stefano Bardini (1836-1922), amongst the most prominent Italian antiquarians, that after being a merchant for several years, decided to turn his private collection into a museum and to donate it to the Municipality of Florence.

Designed by Buontalenti at the end of the sixteenth century, it is a fortified villa on a hill overlooking the city: from its standpoint one can enjoy one of the best views of Florence.
It host summer exhibitions of contemporary art
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From 21 September to the end of the exhibition: free outdoor area from Tuesday to Sunday from 10.00 to 19.00.

Murate Art District offers exhibitions, meetings, performances and workshops focused on the themes and the artistic languages of the contemporary world with an interdisciplinary slant. The Magazines Hall and the Residences for artists are offered as a place of learning and artistic development. Additionally, Murate Art District is a center of research and artistic production for the city and about the city.

The museum hosts the artworks donated to the city of Florence in 1946 by the antiquarian and collector from Campania Salvatore Romano: a precious collection of sculptures, architectonic findings, detached frescos and furniture, from various sources and epochs ranging from Roman Age to the Seventeenth century.

From the height of the tower visitors can enjoy a wonderful view over the city. The tower tells the story of Florence’s “fortitude and beauty”: its architecture is a trace of the medieval walls that used to enclose the city, it conjures up stories of defences and sieges, it registers the coming and going of goods.

Itineraries guide the public to discover this wonderful “open sky museum” that has to be known, preserved and enhanced for a renewed glance to the city.

The Museo delle Terre Nuove is hosted in the Palazzo d'Arnolfo, attributed by Vasari to Arnolfo di Cambio, in San Giovanni Valdarno. The museum narrates the phenomenon of the foundation of new urban settlements in the late Middle Ages, the New Lands, occurring in most of Europe. It focuses in particular on its development in Tuscany and in the Florentine area where, starting from the end of the thirteenth century, Florence founded many villages among which Castel San Giovanni, the San Giovanni Valdarno of today.

The Leonardian Museum is one of the most original and wide collection of machines and models of Leonardo the inventor, the technologist and the engineer.

Dopo l'accordo tra Amministrazione Comunale e Associazione Amici del Museo Gino Bartali, la gestione è passata a Palazzo Vecchio e il museo inserito all'interno dei Musei Civici Fiorentini. La struttura si trova a Ponte a Ema, località dove il grande campione era nato e aveva iniziato la carriera agonistica. Velocipedi, biciclette, maglie, cimeli, giornali d'epoca, pubblicazioni e filmati documentano la storia del ciclismo, le imprese di Gino Bartali e di altri campioni.
Oltre mille metri quadrati dislocati su tre piani: al piano seminterrato si trova il deposito di biciclette di varie epoche che ne fa intravedere l'evoluzione tecnica, al primo piano il museo vero e proprio, con l'esposizione di biciclette appartenute ai grandi campioni del ciclismo, compresa una Stucchi perfettamente conservata, le maglie dei campioni del passato (Gino Bartali, Fausto Coppi, Franco Bitossi, Alfredo Martini), le biografie e le coppe di Gino Bartali al quale è stata dedicata una intera sala, ed anche aneddoti di Bitossi, Boni, Chioccioli, Ciolli, Corrieri, Martini, Poggiali, Tognaccini.

A seguito dell'entrata in vigore del DL 221/2021, dal 10 gennaio 2022 l'accesso ai servizi Museali, alle mostre e agli altri istituti e luoghi della cultura come Biblioteche e Archivio Storico, sarà consentito esclusivamente ai soggetti in possesso di green pass rafforzato in corso di validità (rilasciato dopo aver completato il ciclo primario di vaccinazione oppure in seguito a guarigione dall'infezione da Sars-CoV-2), ad esclusione dei soggetti di età inferiore ai dodici anni e di quelli esenti dalla campagna vaccinale.