Andreina Contessa, director of the Accademia (home of Michelangelo’s David and his unfinished Slaves sculptures), Bargello, Palazzo Davanzati, the Medici Chapels, the Orsanmichele and the Casa Martelli since July 2025, is introducing a cumulative ticket to these museums and also announced an imminent increase in ticket prices and a change in opening hours. Starting on March 15, 2026, guests can purchase a ticket valid 72 hours at a cost of €38 to visit [...]
Until October 29: HALEY MELLIN: SIAMO NATURA. Museo Novecento of 20th and 21st Century Art, piazza Santa Maria Novella 10. Open 11 am – 8 pm, closed Thursday. Admission: €9.50 for museum entry, exhibition included. Further concessions are available on the museum’s official website. Inside the former Ospedale di San Paolo, now the Museo Novecento, medieval frescoes mingle with Haley Mellin’s paintings of the tropics. Mellin is an American environmental activist and artist. [...]
A virtual exhibition created by the Uffizi Galleries commemorates the 80th anniversary of the Night of the Bridges, a crucial moment in the history of 20th century Florence. Through the photos of Nello Baroni, it gives a vivid account of the dramatic days preceding their destruction by the Nazis in an attempt to prevent the advance of the Allied armies, and the consequent evacuation of residents from the historic center to the the [...]
Two paintings damaged at the Uffizi during the 1993 Georgofoli bomb blast will be displayed at the museum until Sunday, July 28 in commemoration of the 31st anniversary of the explosion. The paintings, The Concert and The Card Players, both by the Baroque painter Bartolomeo Manfredi, a follower of Caravaggio, and dated between 1617 and 1618, are the first and last paintings to be reconstructed from the effects of the bomb damage. The [...]
Florence’s La Specola (via Romana 17) reopens February 26 after pre-Covid closure for renovations and expansion. The works, both enlarging the space and restoring much of the collection, allow visitors to explore two new wings of the science and natural history museum. The new sections, dedicated to mineralogy in addition to depictions and dissections of plants and flowers in wax, contain never before displayed works. La Specola (which means observatory in Italian) claims [...]
Opening November 15, 2023: MICHELANGELO’S SECRET ROOM. Medici Chapels Museum. Open Mondays (at 3 pm, 4:30 pm, and 6 pm), Wednesdays (9 am, 10:30 am, 12 pm, 1:30 pm, 3 pm, 4:30 pm, and 6 pm), Thursdays (9 am, 10:30 am, 12 noon, 1:30 pm, and 3 pm), Fridays (3 pm, 4:30 pm, and 6 pm ), and Saturdays at (9 am, 10:30 am, 12 pm, 1:30 pm, 3 pm, 4:30 pm, [...]
To celebrate International Women’s Day on Wednesday, March 8, the Accademia on via Ricasoli will be free to women visitors from 8:15 am – 1:50 pm (last admission 1:20 pm). This day was instituted to celebrate the political, social, and economic advancements of women around the world and in history, presenting an opportunity for the museum to unveil some important changes. Although most come for the statue of David, the Accademia is also [...]
Until January 29, 2023: FIRST ACT by Marya Kazoun. Sala Bianca, Pitti Palace. Open Tuesday to Sunday, 8.15 am – 6.30 pm. Closed Monday. Admission to the Pitti Palace is €10, reduced price is €2, while on Wednesday afternoon after 3 pm a discounted entrance of €5 is offered. Using the religious sphere as her creative influence, Lebanese-Canadian artist, Marya Kazoun, unveils a contemporary interpretation in her installation, “First Act.” Using sculpture art [...]
Customarily, Florence’s state-run museums offer free admission on the first Sunday of the month. Since New Year’s Day, January 1, arrives on a Sunday, only a handful will be accessible with no-cost entrance. They are: the Uffizi Gallery (10:45 am – 6:45 pm); the Boboli Gardens (11 am – 4:3o pm); the Academy Gallery (8:15 am – 6:50 pm); the Bargello National Sculpture Museum and the Medici Chapels (10 am – 6 pm) [...]
The Accademia Gallery, home of Michelangelo’s sculpture David, his Prisoners and medieval paintings, will be open from 8:15 a.m. to 6:50 p.m. starting on June 21. Extended summer evening hours on Tuesdays also return on the 21st, during which the museum will stay open until 10 p.m. The museum will stay closed on Mondays. Because of the new hours, visitors can now fully experience the gallery’s upgraded LED lighting as it illuminates the [...]
