The ciity of Florence has a special tourist card, which is called Firenze Card.

The museums of Florence and its province are run  either by the Italian State, or by the municipality or by private bodies or foundations.

This is not interesting for tourists, but they should know that it makes the difference for the admission fees.

Founded in Cerreto Guidi is Mumeloc, the Museum of Local Memory. It tells the present and future generations about life in the Fucecchio Marshes and the Nazi massacre that took place here in August 1944.

Non lontano dal borgo di Vinci, in località Anchiano, si trova la casa natale di Leonardo,  luogo simbolo del legame del figlio più celebre con la sua città.

The much-awaited guided tours of the restoration site of the frescoes in Santa Croce, the great Florentine basilica of the Holy Cross, have finally begun.

The eight frescoes on the side walls of the Cappella Maggiore, painted in 1380 by Agnolo Gaddi and depicting the Legend of the True Cross, are now being restored.

The exhibition of Folon’s works at Forte Belvedere was memorable. That was back in 2005. Now Folon has returned to Florence after his premature death in the month of October of that year.

The Museo Casa Siviero is actually a house that you enter feeling a bit intrigued, a bit intruder.

The small villa on the Lungarno Serristori has the appearance of a normal dwelling; the entrance is from the garden. A small, shady green space gives access to the apartment Rodolfo Siviero once lived in.

Florence Tourist Board has been collecting data about admittance tickets to museums for years now. You can download here a pdf table where museums are listed according to the body they are managed by: state-run museums, city council museums and museums run by other bodies.

The Richard Ginori Porcelain Museum is located in Sesto Fiorentino, in a building next to the plant and to the 'Botteguccia', namely, the factory outlet.

The Museum holds a rich selection of the antique porcelain production that, traditionally, has always been manufactured at Doccia, near Sesto Fiorentino.

The year 1954 was that of the relocation to the current  premises.

The porcelain factory was founded in 1735 by Marquis Carlo Ginori, a man with a vast knowledge of art and a far-sighted business sense, who knew the experiments made under the patronage of  the Medici family for producing soft-paste porcelain.

Leonardo is one of the best kown genius of the Italian Renaissance. He was born in a small hamlet near Vinci, a town not far from Florence on the slopes of the Montalbano.

Vinci's most important attraction is the Leonardo Museum, one of the largest and most original collections of machines and models designed by Leonardo the inventor, the technologist and the engineer. 

It's the newcomer among the Florentine museums: its name is Casa Martelli and it is an astonishing place.

Casa Martelli is in a palazzo in via Zannetti, once named via della Forca (Gallows Road).

The city of Castelfiorentino  has got a brand new museum in a building designed specifically  for the frescoes of one of the most important painters of the Renaissance.

The Museo Benozzo Gozzoli was conceived and constructed for the purpose of giving a home to the frescoes which Benozzo painted for two chapels built near the city.

The Medici Villas were summer residences, places to rest, go hunting and have leisure time. They were all painted in lunette form by Flemish painter Giusto (Iustus) Utens, entrusted by Ferdinando I de’ Medici at the end of the sixteenth century.

The “Villa del Poggio Imperiale” located just outside of Florence which belonged to the Medici first and then to Lorraine (Lorena), is best known as the seat of the “Educandato Statale”. The prestigious school in the past hosted famous students like Maria Josè di Savoia or Dacia Maraini.

Located not far from the stadium, near Piazza Alberti, the abbey of San Salvi, of the Vallombrosa order, is off the main tourist routes.

It is, however, well worth visiting this unexpected museum right next to the church, where one can admire the monks’ refectory frescoed by Andrea del Sarto representing a scene from the Last Supper.

The museum of Masonic symbols is in Florence. It houses more than ten thousand objects from around the world.

After being under restoration for several years, the Florentine home where Giorgio Vasari spent the last years of his life and died in 1574 is reopening to the public.

Over the years the privately-owned house had undergone many changes, however the Sala Grande, the ‘Big Hall’ frescoed by the master and his collaborators, had remained intact, though in need of restoration.

Situated in the municipality of Campi Bisenzio, in the north-west suburbs of Florence, is the Museo di arte sacra in San Donnino.

Although the area has its fair share of economic and social problems, including a large immigrant population struggling to integrate, the museum, which opened some years ago, might well be the envy of considerably more affluent neighbourhoods.

 The monastery dedicated to St. Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi, in Borgo Pinti, Florence,  was founded in 1256 and entrusted in the 14th century to Cistercian nuns.

Starting in 1481, the monastery and the church were rebuilt in Renaissance forms and at the end of the 15th century the Chapter House was frescoed by Pietro Perugino with the Crucifixion.

The province of Florence’s museum offer has a new venue located in Empoli, the Glass Museum, built in a town where the traditional manufacturing of this material is still carried on today and played an important role in supporting the region and local craftsmen in the past.

The Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza (Institute and Museum of the History of Science) has undergone a renovation involving a complete redesign of its exhibition areas and displays. Today, it reopens under the new name of Museo Galileo, the Galileo Museum.

The event coincides with the 400th anniversary of Sidereus Nuncius—“the Starry Messenger”—the work published in March 1610 in which Galileo announced the sensational observations made with his telescope.

New exhibition premises for the ceramics of Montelupo Fiorentino
On 24 May the new Museum of Ceramics has been officially opened in Montelupo Fiorentino. Three floors of exhibition space have been dedicated to the ceramics of this small Tuscan town, given well deserved recognition with the opening of the new museum.

Uffizi: one of the most important museums in the world. A handbook of history of art from the late Middle Ages to the 18th century.
With some superstars like Venus or the Primavera painted by Sandro Botticelli.

Beneath the basilica, a new museum

The church of San Lorenzo, "parish church" of the Medici family, is now enhanced with a new museum. Right beneath the Sagrestia Vecchia, a masterpiece of Renaissance architecture and the work of Filippo Brunelleschi, the ample cellars little used until now have become the environment which houses the Treasure of the Basilica, hitherto kept in inaccessible cupboards.