{"id":14254,"date":"2019-11-20T22:15:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T21:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arttrav.com\/?p=14254"},"modified":"2019-12-04T15:17:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T14:17:04","slug":"city-museums-in-florence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arttrav.com\/florence\/city-museums-in-florence\/","title":{"rendered":"City Museums in Florence (and a Card for Residents)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This fall, Florence\u2019s city museums<\/strong> announced the availability of a 10 euro \u201cCard del Fiorentino<\/a>\u201d that gives residents access to the museums in Florence owned by the city and managed by an association called Mus.e. With my new card in hand, I wanted to take a look at what museums are on this list and make sure I visit them all! Below is a list of the city museums in Florence and my very personal description of what to see inside – whether or not you hold the residents’ card.<\/p>\n

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Museo di Palazzo Vecchio<\/h2>\n
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Saturn enjoying a vacation in Sicily – on the scaffolding of the Sala dei Elementi in Palazzo Vecchio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Palazzo Vecchio, Florence\u2019s City Hall, has been a symbol of Florence since the thirteenth century, when it was constructed as the seat of the second Republican government (the first was housed in the Bargello \u2013 now the state museum for sculpture). The building still functions as our city hall, with births, weddings and residency registered there, something that makes me very proud to be an adopted Florentine. The Museum of Palazzo Vecchio is perhaps the most important of the city museums in Florence, and is included in the new Card del Fiorentino; on its own it costs \u20ac12,50 to visit, so if you\u2019re a resident of Florence and go in here just once a year, you\u2019ve already saved a lot! What is there to see here? So much! The current appearance of the interior of this palazzo owes much to renovations of around 1540 from when Duke Cosimo I de\u2019 Medici and his wife Eleonora di Toledo moved in. The biggest bang for your buck goes to the Salone dei Cinquecento, a huge room decorated by Vasari with images celebrating the Medici family; before Vasari\u2019s decoration, this was the site of a \u201cpaint-off\u201d between Michelangelo and Leonardo, though both works weren\u2019t completed. Off this room is a tiny \u201cstudiolo\u201d belonging to Francesco I, absolutely worth seeing; a personal favourite are the chambers of Eleonora (for that feminine touch, plus Bronzino), and map lovers shouldn\u2019t miss the map room!<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a Palazzo Vecchio kind of week… in the Salone dei Cinquecento for the @buy_wine gala dinner. ? @marcobadiani | a client of @flodrepublic . . . . . #palazzovecchio #florence #firenze #igersfirenze #italianwine #tuscanwine #buywine2019 #anteprimetoscane #thewinebuzz #wineloverss #winerylovers #wineinitaly #ilivewine #thewinefans #winerist #winemoments #winemaker #winetour #wineanddine #bevicosavedi #howissummer #wineallthetime #wineissharing #winecountry #wineenthusiast #finewine #thestoryofmywine #vinicultura #sommelier #expatlife<\/a><\/p>\n

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