Famous Museums and Art Galleries in Florence

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Florence is one of the beautiful cities in Italy. Because of very rich culture and amazing history, this city offers a wide number of museums which tell all about cities history of religion, people, astronomy, physics, monuments, architecture, and fashion.

There are numerous museums in Florence and from that below are the most visited museums in Florence every year.

Uffizi Gallery

Located adjacent to the Piazza Della Signoria, The Uffizi Gallery is the most famous Italian museum which holds an immense collection of Italian Renaissance art from artists such as Da Vinci, Botticelli, Titian, and Raphael. It is the most visited museum in Italy.

The gallery was officially opened for the public in 1765 and formally became a museum in 1865.

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Accademia Gallery

Galleria dell'Accademia is known for its most famous Michelangelo David sculpture. The best part of this museum is a collection of musical instruments. It has many other sculptures by Michelangelo and also has a major collection of paintings by Florentine artists.

After Uffizi, it is the second most visited museum in Italy with approximately 1.5 million visitors every year.

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Palazzo Pitti

Located on the south of river Arno, Palazzo Pitti is the largest museum complex in Florence and a fine example of Italian Renaissance architecture.

It was purchased by the Wealthy Medici family in 1550. Since then it was a home for them until the last Medici male died in 1737. Great Napoleon has also used Palazzo Pitti as a power base in the 18th century.

Today it is divided into several museums and galleries

1. The Treasury of the Grand Dukes - Ground Floor

2. The Palatine Gallery and the Royal Apartments - First Floor

3. The Modern Art Gallery - Second Floor

4. The Museum of Costume and Fashion - Second Floor

Palatine Gallery consists of 28 rooms and is the main gallery of Pitti Palace.

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Boboli Gardens

Just behind Palazzo Pitti are the beautiful Boboli Gardens. It is an exceptional green architecture that covers an area of 45,000 square meters making it one of the largest gardens in Florence.

Royal and wealthy Medici Family had laid the foundation of these gardens by establishing a layout of the gardens and creating an Italian garden style that later on becomes the model of many European courts.

Boboli Gardens are green lungs in Florence and walking through this is simply awesome.

Boboli features countless various things including a different large pond, the main lawn with large fountains (like “fountain of Neptune” and “fountain of the ocean”) and the obelisk at the entrance, unique selections of trees like centuries-old oak trees, plants, and flowers.

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National Museum of Bargello

Bargello is known for its wide collection of statues and visitors enjoy exploring the gallery as it is not as crowded as compared to Uffizi Gallery.

It is home to many statues by Michelangelo, Donatello, and Verrocchio.

If you are not a big fan of sculptures, you can still definitely appreciate Bargello for its gallery of applied arts.

It was once a prison back in the 13 century and now it is one of the interesting museum spots in Florence. In the 1800s it was one of the first museums in the whole of Italy to open its sculpture gallery.

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Opera del Duomo Museum

Museum of the Works of the Cathedral, a newly renovated museum purely dedicated to the rich and lengthy history of the planning, designing, building, and reconstruction of Florence’s most famous landmark, the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore.

Creative architect Filippo Brunelleschi is famous for his innovative building techniques of the time. This museum is so important for those who like architecture, politics, history, Catholic influences in Italian history. When you’re finished, the museum inside the church under the main floor is full of the church’s religious history, which also includes various artifacts from the royal Medici family.

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