All Renaissance art & Early modern art museums to visit in Florence

Experience the artistic revival of the Renaissance and early modern periods at 15 museums in Florence. These museums showcase masterpieces from a transformative era in art history.

Are you captivated by Renaissance and early modern art? These are the best museums to visit in Florence:

  1. Accademia Gallery1

    Accademia Gallery

     Florence
    The Accademia Gallery in Florence was founded in 1784 and holds Michelangelo's masterpiece - the statue of David. Apart from this famous sculpture, it holds other artworks by Michelangelo and a collection of Renaissance paintings. The marble statue of the Biblical hero David was created between 1501
  2. Museo Nazionale del Bargello2

    Museo Nazionale del Bargello

     Florence
    Museo Nazionale del Bargello is a museum in Florence that is housed in a 13th-century palace which is the oldest public building in Florence. It opened as a national museum in 1865 after it was used as barracks, a prison, and finally the residence of the Bargello, the head of the police. The art gal
  3. Online discount!Vasari Corridor3

    Vasari Corridor

     Florence
    The Vasari Corridor in Florence is an enclosed passageway that was built in 1565 by Cosimo I de' Medici. Linking the Palazzo Pitti and the Palazzo Vecchio, this corridor is decorated with paintings by Raphael, Bernini, Rubens, and Rembrandt. There are windows in the middle of Ponte Vecchio that off
  4. Galleria Palatina4

    Galleria Palatina

     Florence
    The Galleria Palatinain Florence is the main gallery of the Pitti Palace that contains more than 500 Renaissance paintings from the private art collection of the Medici family. It was first opened to the public by the House of Lorraine in 1828. The collection includes masterpieces by Raphael, Titian
  5. Brancacci Chapel5

    Brancacci Chapel

     Florence
    Located in the Church of Santa Maria del Carmine, the Brancacci Chapel is notable for its outstanding frescoes made by Masaccio and Masolino, great Italian Renaissance painters. The work on the chapel was finished by Filippino Lippi. Some of the highlights include The Temptation of Adam and Eve and
  6. Galleria dello Spedale degli Innocenti6

    Galleria dello Spedale degli Innocenti

     Florence
    As there were a lot of abandoned babies in the 1400s, Florence needed to establish an institution which would take care of them. This Renaissance complex, the Spedale degli Innocenti, was built in the 1440s to serve as a children's orphanage and operated as one until the 19th century. It was designe
  7. Palazzo Medici Riccardi7

    Palazzo Medici Riccardi

     Florence
    The Renaissance palace Palazzo Medici Riccardi was built by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo for Cosimo de' Medici between 1444 and 1484. He moved to Palazzo Vecchio in 1540, but part of the Medici family stayed here until 1659 when Ferdinando II sold it to the Riccardi family, a rich family of bankers who
  8. Museo Bardini8

    Museo Bardini

     Florence
    The Museo Bardini (Bardini Museum) is a musuem in FLorence that houses a collection of more than 3600 works, including paintings, sculptures, armor, musical instruments, ceramics, coins, medals and antique furniture. Two rooms on the ground floor are dedicated to Florence and its history, with some
  9. Museo del Cenacolo di Andrea del Sarto9

    Museo del Cenacolo di Andrea del Sarto

     Florence
    Museo del Cenacolo di Andrea del Sarto in Florence boasts a remarkable piece called 'The Last Supper' which covers more than 40 square meters. The painter Andrea del Sarto worked over eight years on his masterpiece. Some of his other artworks are on display as well.
  10. Museo di Casa Martelli10

    Museo di Casa Martelli

     Florence
    Museo di Casa Martelli in FLorence is housed in Palazzo Martelli, a former residential palace. This civic museum exhibits in situ the remains of the original family's valuable art collection, as well as its frescoed rooms. The collection includes works by di Cosimo, Francia, Morandini, Rosa , Giorda
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    Leonardo da Vinci Museum

     Florence
    The Leonardo Da Vinci Museum in Florence displays a collection of interactive machines based on the original sketches of Renaissance artist Leonardo Da Vinci.
  12. Museo Horne12

    Museo Horne

     Florence
    The Museo Horne is a museum that is housed in the former Palazzo Corsi in Florence that holds a collection that mainly consists of art and furnishings of the 14th and 15th centuries. The collection includes ancient artifacts, sculptures, painted chests and a notable collection of manuscripts and pai
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    Leonardo Interactive Museum

     Florence
    The Leonardo Interactive Museum in Florence displays reproductions of artworks, inventions and designs by Leonardo da Vinci.
  14. Museo Bellini14

    Museo Bellini

     Florence
    The Bellini Museum or Galleria Luigi Bellini (Museo Bellini) is a private museum in Florence. The museum holds a collection of a dynasty of antiquarians (since the 18th century), which contains objects such as tables painted with gold from the Middle Ages, small bronzes, wooden sculptures, majolica
  15. Salvatore Romano Foundation collection15

    Salvatore Romano Foundation collection

     Florence
    The Salvatore Romano Foundation is located in the Cenacle of Santo Spirito at the Basilica of Santo Spirito in Florence. The large room features a collection of sculptures from the 11th to the 15th century that was donated to Florence by the antiquarian Salvatore Romano. The collection features two