Florence Museums: New Cumulative Ticket & Hours

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 all five.  Another option will be offered: a €26 ticket valid for 48 hours which allows entry to the Accademia Gallery and the Bargello.

Admission to all these sights will cost more starting on February 1, 2026:  €20 for the Accademia instead of €16; €12 for the Bargello instead of €10; €11 for the Medici Chapels in place of €9; €10 rather than €8 for the Orsanmichele complex.  Casa Martelli will continue to welcome guests for free on Tuesday morning and Saturday afternoon.

Starting March 15, instead of varying hours currently in place, the Accademia, Bargello, Palazzo Davanzati, the Medici Chapels, the Orsanmichele all be accessible from 8:15 am – 6:50 pm from Tuesday to Sunday

Tickets can be reserved by calling (+39) 055 294883 or booking online at B-Ticket on the following official sites (with an extra €4 charge):  https://www.galleriaaccademiafirenze.it/tickets/ or https://bargellomusei.it/biglietti/.

Besides Michelangelo at the Accademia, Renaissance great Donatello is represented at the Bargello by St. George and the Dragon and the Marzocco (the lion symbol of Florence) in addition to his original take on David, which predates the one in the Academy Gallery.  Michelangelo, on his part, has four sculptures, including the celebrated Pitti Tondo. Brunelleschi’s and Ghiberti’s panels in competition to be awarded the commission for the Florence Baptistery doors are also on display, along with decorative arts down the ages, ranging from ceramics to textiles.

Michelangelo pops up again at the Medici Chapels, home to his statues of Day and Night and Dusk and Dawn marking the tombs of the Duke of Nemours and the Duke of Urbino.

The Orsanmichele was initially a monastery with a vegetable garden (orto), rebuilt as a grain market and grain warehouse and finally a church in the 14th century.  It is a perfect synthesis of the two omnipresent sides of Florence’s soul–sacred and the commercial.

In the late 1390s, Florence was a self- governing republic under the direction of the city guilds.  The Orsanmichele was given to the guilds, which commissioned statues of protector saints to represent each one individually on the facade, now in the museum.  The works were completed by artists as important as Donatello, Verrocchio and Giambologna.

Inside the church, the signature work is Orcagna’s gem-encrusted High Gothic tabernacle framing a medieval Bernardo Daddi Virgin and Child.

Palazzo Davanzati is the museum of a perfectly preserved Florence Renaissance home.