March 2019 Free Museum Sunday

FREE MUSEUM SUNDAY (DOMENICA METROPOLITANA). No admission will be charged at Florence’s state-run museums.

March 3, 2019  marks the last Free Museum Sunday until the fall.  So, take the opportunity to visit, for free: the Uffizi Gallery (8:15 am – 6:50 pm); the Palatine Gallery (8 am – 6:50 pm), the Modern Art Gallery (8 am – 6:50 pm), the Fashion and Costume Gallery  (8:15 am – 6:50 pm) in the Pitti Palace; the Academy Gallery (8:15 am – 6:50 pm); the Bargello (National Sculpture Museum, 8:15 am – 1:50 pm); the Archeological Museum (8:30 am – 2 pm); the Medici Chapels (8 am – 1:50 pm); and the Boboli and Bardini Gardens (8:15 am – 5:30 pm).  The Palazzo Davanzati Historic Florentine Home Museum is temporarily closed.

Residents of the greater Florence metropolitan area are also granted free entrance to civic museums, which include the Church of Santa Maria Novella (1– 5:30 pm), the Brancacci Chapel (1 – 5 pm), the Zeffirelli Foundation (10 am – 6 pm), Palazzo Medici Riccardi (9 am – 7 pm), the Novecento Museum of 20th Century Art (11 am – 5 pm), the Bardini Museum (11 am – 5 pm), the Salvatore Romano Antiquities Foundation (1 – 5 pm) as well as Palazzo Vecchio (9 am – 7 pm) and its tower (10 am – 5 pm).

Please note: ticket offices will close 1 hour before the museum closing time. Booking is required and a group (5 people max.) is only permitted to book one appointment for the day. For bookings email info@muse.comune.fi.it or visit the webpage www.musefirenze.it.

In the event of bad weather the tower of Palazzo Vecchio will remain closed.