Guided tours of the museums of Florence
A tour guide can recommend a tour in one of the many museums of Florence.
Florence: guided tours in the museums
Do you know how many the museums in Florence are? Between
state, civic and private are more than 60! As a qualified and
expert tour guide, I can provide guided tours of the museums of
Florence that are state, civic or private, from the best known
to the least frequented but equally interesting.
Guided tours to the museums of Florence can be arranged,
usually, for small groups or individuals, I can book the tickets
as well as radio systems with earphones (now mandatory in many
museums). On this page, you will find a non-exhaustive list of
museums to visit during your stay in Florence, for other
proposals you can contact me directly.
Uffizi Gallery
The Uffizi Gallery is at the top of the wish list of all lovers of Art and the Florentine Renaissance in particular.
The great masterpieces
Here are Botticelli's masterpieces, Leonardo's early works, the only pictorial work on wood by Michelangelo and then Giotto, Raffaello, Tiziano, Caravaggio.
Booking is recommended
The guided tour of the Uffizi Gallery must be booked in advance due to the large demand.
From Academia Gallery to Pitti Palace
The Accademia Gallery is visited every year by millions of people
who want to have a close encounter with the beauty and perfection
of Michelangelo's David. Here there are also other works by
Michelangelo but also a unique collection in the world of
altarpieces from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Inside
the Academy, you can also visit a small but very interesting
Museum of musical instruments where the Stradivari tenor viola is
preserved.
Our guided visits to the museums of Florence continue with the
Palazzo Pitti complex: collections of painting, sculpture and
applied arts follow one another in the halls of the palace. The
Palatine Gallery houses the gallery of the Grand Dukes, in the
Gallery of modern Art are exhibited artworks from the eighteenth
to the early twentieth century, in the museum of the Treasury of
the Grand Duke is preserved the works of jewelry and applied arts
belonging to the Medici and the Habsburgs Lorraine families; then
there is a small porcelain museum immersed in the Boboli Gardens,
the Fashion and Costume Gallery with collections that vary every
two years.
Bargello Museum and Duomo Museum
The first national museum in Italy was the Bargello Museum
opened in 1861. It is a little-visited jewel and therefore
an oasis of peace where you are surrounded by Renaissance
statuary (Michelangelo, Donatello, Verrocchio, Giambologna,
Ammannati, Della Robbia , Bernini, etc).
A museum in which I love to take guided tours in Florence is
undoubtedly the new Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, recently
renovated and made the most accessible and pleasant museum
to visit in Florence. Masterpieces such as the original
gates of the Baptistery, the reconstruction of the facade of
the fourteenth-century Cathedral, the Pietà by Michelangelo
and the Maria Maddalena by Donatello are exhibited. You
cannot list all the masterfully preserved works in the
museum, you must visit it!
Starting from San Marco…
Speaking of guided visits to less-frequented museums in Florence, a place not to be missed is the Museum of San Marco, an ancient Dominican convent where the cells of the friars and the common areas were frescoed by Fra Angelico and his assistants. Here is the cell where Fra Girolamo Savonarola spent his last hours before being arrested and executed in Piazza della Signoria. A place of peace and beauty that is worth visiting. The Medici Chapels are the right place for lovers of the Medici and Michelangelo families: here are the famous allegories of the Day, Night, Sunrise and Sunset lying on the marble sarcophagi of Lorenzo Duke of Urbino and Giuliano Duke of Nemours. Guided tours can be made in Florence in the museums of the great basilicas: Santa Croce, San Lorenzo, Santa Maria Novella, Santo Spirito, San Miniato al Monte. They are paths of faith and art because each basilica retains works of inestimable value within itself.
The lesser known museum
Last but not least, you can take guided tours of the lesser-known museums in Florence: even if these small pearls are less known it does not mean that they are less interesting. The Horne Museum, for example, is located in a fifteenth-century building and retains much of the furniture of the time; the Stefano Bardini Museum is dedicated to the first Florentine antiquarian who collected extraordinary pieces around Tuscany, most of which form the collection; the Galileo Galilei Museum is for science lovers; the Football Museum is instead located in Coverciano in the home of the Italian national football team; the Zeffirelli Foundation preserves sketches, costumes, documents belonging to the great Florentine director Franco Zeffirelli. As you can see, guided visits to the museums of Florence can respond to any type of interest and together we can choose the ones that best suit your needs.