Museum & Art
Florence Sculptures
Florence Museum Name: Museo Nazionale del Bargello
Type: Sculpture and minor arts museum
Address: Via del Proconsolo, 4; 055-23885.
Note: This is one of the most important and rich sculpture museums: there are works
of such artists as Verrocchio, Donatello Michelangelo and Cellini. The uniqueness
of a sculpture is that, when passion and effort and all feelings are transmitted
to it, it becomes alive, and over time these pieces still speak of their creator
and of their eras.
Other Florence Museums
Florence Museum Name: La Specola
Type: Art and wax modelling museum
Address: Via Romana, 17; just off Palazzo Pitti/Giardino di Boboli; 055-225190.
Note: The wax collection at this museum is unique in the quantity and beauty of its
pieces; it was created in the XVIII century in order to teach anatomy without
having to directly observe a cadaver.
Florence Museum Name: Museo di Storia della Fotografia Fratelli Alinari (click here for their website)
Type: Museum of photography and history of photography
Address: Piazza Santa Maria Novella
Note: We believe this is one of the most important photography museums in the world,
where not only the most beautiful artistic, historical and cultural photos are exposed,
but a reconstruction of the evolution of photography since the XIX century, with all the
machines, publicity, paper documents, and other instruments correlated are also
featured, which have been fundamental elements in the formation of photography. To
experience this museum is also to experience all the educational aspects of photography;
the museum indeed also promotes cultural events.
Florence Museum Name: Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Type: Glass and scientific instruments
Address: P.zza dei Giudici, 1; 055-2398876.
Note: The Institute hosts glass, scientific and mathematical instruments of Cosimo
Il Vecchio, de' Medici and some astronomical instruments that belonged to Galileo
Galilei.
Florence Museum Name: Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
Type: Art history and architecture research institute
Address: Via G. Giusti, 44; 055-249111.
Note: One of the most ancient art research institutes in Italy. It is based on the
principles of Humanism, and for centuries researchers from every part of the world
have been studying in one of the largest libraries in Italy, composed of hundreds
of thousands of volumes.
Florence Museum Name: Casa Buonarroti
Type: Collection of Michelangelo's drawings and early works.
Address: Via Ghibellina, 70; 055-241752.
Florence Museum Name: Museo della Casa Fiorentina Antica di Palazzo Davanzati
Type: noble residence / everyday life museum
Address: Via Porta Rossa, 13; 055-2388610.
Note: This is one of the best examples of a XIV century noble residence with everyday
life elements featured such as furniture, tapestries, beautiful laces, sober decorations
and structure, its dining room boasting a small internal window from which the food
was pulled up from the kitchen; the bedroom, the bed, the bathroom (a tiny space with
a small 'wall container' where a movable container was placed and covered; the content of which was then thrown onto the street below), and the women's shoes, very small, by
the way, with wedge heels
Florence Museum Name: Museo della Fondazione Herbert Percy Horne
Type: Museum of customs and habits
Address: Via de' Benci, 6; 055-244661.
Note:for XV and XVI century lovers of everyday life
Florence Museum Name: Museo dell'Opificio delle Pietre Dure
Type: Hard Rocks Museum
Address: Via degli Alfani, 78; 055-265111.
Note: The 'pietre dure' workshop was founded by Ferdinando I de' Medici in 1588. Today
it is also a specialized restoration workshop.
Florence Museum Name: Museo Salvatore Ferragamo
Type: Shoes
Address: Palazzo Spini Ferroni, P.zza Santa Trinita, 5r; 055-3360456/5.
Note: A collection of thousands of Salvatore Ferragamo originals, creative, colourful
shoes, and sketches, books and magazines.
Florence Museum Name: Gipsoteca dell'Istituto Statale d'Arte
Type: Plaster sculpture museum
Address: Piazzale di Porta Romana, 9; 055-244145.
Note: This is one of the most important plaster cast museums in Italy; it includes
sculptures dated between the XIV and the XX century, among which are Donatello and
ancient Roman works.
Florence Museum Name: Fondazione della Seta Lisio
Type: Precious hand woven textiles preservation, creation and studies
Address: Via B. Fortini, 143; 055-6801340.
Note: This Foundation is dedicated to studying and promulgating the art of textiles and
to preserving and creating new precious textiles, such as brocades and velvets, which
have been kept in perfect condition since the Renaissance and Baroque times.
Florence Museum Name: Museo Storico della Scagliola
Type: Scagliola pieces
Address: Viale Europa, 115; 055-686118.
Note: The museum contains works dated to between the XVII to the XIX century.
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