Florence - Finestre sull'Arte

Starting March 15, combined tickets and unified hours for the Florence Academy Gallery and Bargello Museums institute

As of March 15, 2026, the state system Florence Academy Gallery and Bargello Museums introduces major changes with the aim of making museum offerings more integrated and easily accessible to the public. The main changes concern theintroduction of cum...
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Uffizi, after eight years reopens the Scalone Lorenese, the entrance wanted by Pietro Leopoldo

After nearly nine years of closure for works, one of the symbolic places of the Uffizi Galleries in Florence reopens: the Scalone Lorenese, the historic entrance to the Gallery's exhibition itinerary, now returns fully visible and accessible to the p...
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Donatello's bronze Doors return to Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence after painstaking restoration

After careful and complex restoration work, the Door of the Martyrs and the Door of the Apostles made by Donatello between about 1440 and 1442 have been relocated to the Old Sacristy of the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence. The two restored bronze...
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Bottarone Urn restored: original colors of 2400-year-old Etruscan grooms resurfaced

TheUrn of Bottarone, an Etruscan masterpiece housed at the National Archaeological Museum in Florence, has been restored sixty years after the devastating flood that hit the city in 1966. At the time, the Arno also invaded the museum's halls, submerg...
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Florence, Giotto's Campanile restoration kicks off: the first time it has undergone comprehensive restoration

An extensive program of restorations is involving and will involve the monuments and buildings in Florence's Piazza del Duomo, including Giotto's Campanile, the Eugenian College, and the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo. As the president of theOpera di San...
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Seven museums, one vision: the Accademia and Bargello revolution. Director Andreina Contessa speaks

Last July, Andreina Contessa was appointed director of the newly formed Galleria dell'Accademia di Firenze and Musei del Bargello museum system, which includes the Galleria dell'Accademia di Firenze, the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, the Museo delle ...
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Florence celebrates Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici at the Medici Chapels

Florence celebrates Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, theElectress Palatina, with a day of initiatives sponsored by the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence and the Bargello Museums. The event is set for Wednesday, Feb. 18, at the Medici Chapel Museum, whe...
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Important discovery at Florence's National Central Library brings to light a volume postillated by Galileo

Discovery at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence, where a recent investigation has unearthed a volume of extraordinary interest to the history of science: a printed copy of Claudius Ptolemy'sAlmagest, published in Basel in 1551, containing ...
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