State Museum of Florence Firenze

The Polo Museale Fiorentino is an institution which administers the largest ensemble of art works in Italy.

It includes twenty museums varying in importance from the Uffizi Gallery to the Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi, from the Accademia Gallery to the Cenacolo of Santa Apollonia. It employs over 900 persons (art historians, administrative staff and warders, restorers, photographers, librarians), is responsible for 250 thousand catalogued works of art, and receives over 5 million visitors each year.

The purpose of the Polo Museale is to care for the immense artistic heritage preserved in its museums, villas, historical gardens and conventual buildings, that has been handed down from the glorious past of the city of Florence and its territory; first and foremost from the Medici collections, and later added to by the Lorraine and Savoy rulers and finally by acquisitions made by the State from ecclesiastical and private collections.

Above all, our mission is to make known to the general public our great patrimony of art and culture inherited from the past so that it may serve as a stimulus to future generations.

The Polo Museale of Florence is part of the State administration of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage. It is run by a Superintendent, who is also a qualified art historian, in the person of Prof.Antonio Paolucci.

Accademia Gallery and Museum of Musical Instruments
Bargello National Museum
Boboli Gardens
Cenacolo of Andrea del Sarto
Cenacolo of Fuligno
Cenacolo of Ognissanti
Cenacolo of Sant'Apollonia
Cloister of the Scalzo
Costume Gallery
Gallery of modern art
Garden of the Medici Villa of Castello
Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi and the Historical Hunting and Territorial Museum
Medici Villa of Petraia
Medici Villa of Poggio a Caiano
Museo degli Argenti
Museum of the Medici Chapels
Museum of San Marco
Palatine Gallery and Royal Apartments
Porcelain Museum
Uffizi Gallery