The word museum comes from the Greek museum, which means ‘home of the muses’. In the modern sense, museums are institutions that are engaged in the study and preservation of cultural monuments as well as educational purposes. The original meaning […]
One of the most beloved by fans of literature sights of Florence, the House-Museum of Dante Alighieri, in fact, has a somewhat indirect relationship to the great poet of the Renaissance. The building was built only in 1910 on the […]
For a long time, Beato Angelico lived in the Monastery of San Marco, which is why it houses the largest collection of his paintings in the world. In particular, “Annunciation” and “Last Judgment” (1431). The cells on the second floor […]
The inventions of the “universal genius” of the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci, were so ahead of their time that the vast majority of them were never recognized until the 20th century. Drawings of amazing devices fill his diaries, which have […]
The Galileo Museum is a Florentine museum of the history of science, located in the old town near the Ponte Vecchio. Opened in 1929, he immediately received the medieval palace of Castellani (11th century), in which it is located to […]
The Bardini Museum is lost among the museum “stars” of Florence, there are few tourists even in the peak season, which makes it even more attractive. Stefano Bardini was a renowned restorer and dealer in antiques of the second half […]
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