Accessible Museums
In order to get information about the museums accessibility, you can visit the website http://www.polomuseale.firenze.it/ (in the section “Museums”), with an English version.

As far as free entrances to the museums for the disabled are concerned: in the state museums, both the disabled and the person that accompanies can enter with no charge and the reservation (tel. +39 055 294883) for the Uffizi and the Accademy Gallery (which are the only museums with long waits before entering) is free as well; certification can be requested at the entrance.

Free entrance for disabled people?
In town museums (reservation ph. +39 055 2768224) the disabled pay for the ticket and the person who accompanies does not pay for the ticket; in the Opera of Santa Maria del Fiore museums (or Opera del Duomo) that is to say Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Bell tower, Dome, Baptistry and the Crypth of Santa Reparata the disabled or the person who accompanies has to pay for the ticket .The visit of the monumental  churches of Santa Maria Novella, Santa Croce and San Lorenzo is free of charge for the disabled and for one person who accompanies.

Uffizi…to touch!

On 21st February 2012, for the “International Braille Day”, the Uffizi Gallery has created an autonomy tactile course for partially-sighted and sightless people. To those disables who show to the Uffizi ticket office, with no need of reservation but just with the documents for the free entrance, will be given disposable latex gloves (the same the restorers use) and they will touch the sculptures enjoying their peculiarities, finding all their characteristics and understanding the shapes.

The Uffizi staff will be pleased to assist and help all the visitors. The chosen sculptures belong to the Medici collections and therefore are first-class pieces of art. Every work of art has a correspondent stand on which captions -both in English and in Italian- are readable both by partially-sighted and sightless people.

 


Other tactile visits are available at the museum Marino Marini, at the Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre in the Cappella Rucellai (closed for repairs until the end of 2012 - info:see  museum Marini), at the Museum Horne , at the Museo Nazionale Alinari della Fotografia  and at the Botanic garden (tactile and olfactory visits).

Itineraries
The publication “Vivere Firenze” (only italian version), printed by Comune di Firenze, includes 4 itineraries; you can take a free copy at the tourist information office in Piazza Stazione, 4 (tel. +39 055 212245 – fax +39 055 2381226 – e-mail: turismo3@comune.fi.it ) and in via Cavour 1 red (tel. + 39 055 290832-3 - fax 055 2760383 - email: infoturismo@provincia.fi.it).