State Museums in Florence: Museums run by the Italian State

There are many museums in Florence beyond the Uffizi and Accademia Galleries. Museums in Florence are can be divided into 3 types: those run by the Italian national government, which are called State museums, those run by the city which fall under the Florentine Civic Museums office (see the list of the Civic museums here) or private (such as the Palazzo Strozzi, the Horne museum, the Stibbert Museum).

In order to help you sort out which are which, I've created a list below of the STATE MUSEUMS. This is particularly important when special openings occur or when free entry is offered into State museums only (which will not include the Civic museums). For this reason, it is always handy to understand which are which.

** ALL OF THE STATE MUSEUMS below offer FREE entrance to everyone on the FIRST SUNDAY of every month!! City museums do something similar, but the free entrance is reserved ONLY for local residents. ** The private run museums hardly ever offer free entrance.

The Museums

• Uffizi Gallery (now called the Uffizi Galleries, which also includes the Pitti Palace and Boboli Gardens. The Contini Bonacossi Collection has now been integrated within the Uffizi Gallery collection)
  • The Vasari Corridor (entrance through Uffizi Gallery)
• Accademia Gallery (includes access to Cherubini Conservatory Musical Instruments Collection)
• Bargello National Museum
• The Medici Chapels
• Museum of San Marco
• The Pitti Palace
  • Palatine Gallery & Royal Apartments
  • Gallery of Modern Art
  • Museum of Costume and Fashion
  • "Treasury of the Grand Ducks": The Medici Treasury also known as the Silver Museum
  • Porcelain Museum
  • Boboli Gardens
• Museum of Palazzo Davanzati
• Museum of Casa Martelli
• Church and Museum of Orsanmichele
• Hall of Perugino - free entrance, but openings are "special" and decided month to month

The Villas

These are also museums run by the Italian State, they are often grouped and called the "Medici Villas".

• Garden of the Medici Villa of Castello - you cannot visit the inside of the villa
• Corsini Villa of Castello
• Medici Villa La Petraia
• Medici Villa of Poggio a Caiano and Museum of Still Life
• Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi and its Historical Hunting and Territorial Museum

The Last Suppers and Cloisters

These are smaller State-run museums in Florence that pertain to a small area within cloisters/churches. Their main attraction is the series of frescoed "Last Suppers" in each of them.

• 'Cenacolo' of Ognissanti - Last Supper of Ognissanti
• 'Cenacolo' of Andrea del Sarto - Last Supper of San Salvi
• 'Cenacolo' of Fuligno
• 'Cenacolo' of Sant'Apollonia - Last Supper of Sant'Apollonia
• Cloister of the Scalzo

Temporarily closed:

• The Carriage Museum (Pitti Palace)