We’ve been offering guided tours of the Vasari Corridor for a few years now, but yesterday we added a few extra times as well as a totally new tour (including a tour of the Uffizi Gallery and the Pitti Palace with the Palatine Gallery). So now you may opt to visit just the Vasari Corridor, [...]
Florence, Easter Monday, special openings
April 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Short notice, but you may be pleased to know that pretty much all Florence galleries and museums will be open for Pasquetta – Easter Monday: Uffizi Gallery 8.15 – 18.50 Accademia Gallery (David) 8.15 – 18.50 Boboli Gardens (with the Silver Museum, Costume Gallery, Porcelain Museum and the Bardini Gardens) 8.15 – 18.30 Medici Chapels [...]
Florence, Pitti Palace 2012 – Native American art exhibition
March 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
‘La Nuova Frontiera. Storia e cultura dei nativi d’America dalle collezioni del Gilcrease Museum’ Palazzo Pitti – Andito degli Angiolini – Galleria del Costume 3rd July – 9th December 2012 ‘The New Frontier. The history and culture of the native American from the Gilcrease Museum, USA’ is an exhibition on the 500th anniversary of the [...]
Florence, Pitti Galleries 2012, Japanese art and culture
March 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
‘Giappone. Terra di Incanti’ Palazzo Pitti: Museo degli Argenti & Galleria Palatina & Galleria d’arte moderna 3rd April – 1st July 2012 ‘Japan, Land of Enchantment’ is the ‘group’ title of this series of three distinct exhibitions spread across three of the Pitti Palace galleries, all celebrating the art, history and culture of Japan and [...]
Florence, special museum openings Easter 2011
April 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Some extra special openings in Florence over the next couple of weeks, where pretty much everything is ordinarily shut on Mondays. Monday 25th April – the Uffizi, Accademia, Boboli Gardens and the Pitti Palace galleries (Palatine and Modern) will all be open. Saturday 30th April – the Uffizi will be open (with free entry, no [...]
Florence, restored treasures on show
April 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Florence, Palatine Gallery at the Pitti Palace and the San Marco Museum ‘Restituzioni 2011′, March – June 5th 2011 Two shows of newly restored art treasures, ranging from tapestries to ivory carvings to paintings, busts and terracotta works. In the case of the San Marco piece of the exhibition, the centrepiece is, well, best to [...]
Florence, Pitti Palace exhibition 2011 – La bella Italia
December 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Florence, Palazzo Pitti – 11th October 2011 – 4th March 2012 – ‘La Bella Italia, Arte e Identita delle Citta Capitali’ This major exhibition will be held in both Florence and Turin and is perhaps the most important event celebrating the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy. ‘La bella Italia. Art and identity of [...]
Palazzo Pitti exhibition, ‘Treasures of the Kremlin’
December 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Palazzo Pitti, Silver Gallery – 27th May – 11th September 2011 – ‘Il Tesoro del Cremlino’ This ‘Treasures of the Kremlin’ exhibition is the fruit of the 2011 ‘year of Italy/Russia’ celebrations, an initiative that will see a reciprocal exhibition (Medici treasures) at the Kremlin museum in Moscow. The vast bulk of the exhibits for [...]
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