Major restoration work worth more than 1 million euros starts in the museums of the Pitti Palace


Major restoration and refurbishment work in the museums of the Pitti Palace kicks off, involving the rooms of the Palatine Gallery and the Gallery of Modern Art. Maxi works worth more than one million euros.

Major restoration and refurbishment work in the museums of the Pitti Palace is getting under way, involving the rooms of the Palatine Gallery, on the second floor of the palace, and the Gallery of Modern Art, on the second floor. This is a project of interventions exceeding one million euros.

In the Palatina Gallery, the work will affect the rooms of the Volterrano Quarter, the wing of the building facing the Boboli Gardens, which in the 17th century housed the apartments of Vittoria della Rovere, grand duchess of Tuscany, and later of other members of the grand ducal family, until it was integrated into the museum itinerary. The rooms of Ulysses, Jupiter’s Education, Jupiter, Saturn and the Iliad will also be involved.

The interventions, which are comprehensive in nature, will involve the maintenance and restoration of wooden furniture, including sumptuous tables with fine marble tops, the dusting of frescoed walls and stuccoes, the cleaning of antique chandeliers, the maintenance of paintings, and the restoration of fabrics covering the walls of the halls and some tapestries.

On the second floor, in the Gallery of Modern Art, the project will instead involve the restoration of the Salone del Fiorino and the nearby Sala della Musica. Here they will proceed with the dusting and restoration of the frescoes and decorative stuccoes.

The work, which has just begun, will continue until spring 2026. The first rooms affected are the Hall of Berenice and the Hall of Allegories in the Volterrano Quarter in the Palatine Gallery, where the wall hangings have already been removed for vacuuming and cleaning, while wood restorers are already busy restoring decorated antique tables, doors and windows.

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Works at the Pitti Palace
Work at the Pitti Palace
Works at the Pitti Palace
Work at the Pitti Palace
Works at the Pitti Palace
Works at the Pitti Palace

Major restoration work worth more than 1 million euros starts in the museums of the Pitti Palace
Major restoration work worth more than 1 million euros starts in the museums of the Pitti Palace


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