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Italian Museums |
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Name of Museum | Address | City | Info |
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Civic Museum**** - Monumental Rooms |
Palazzo Comunale |
Siena | One of the the most important Gothic buildings. It preserves the masterpieces of Sienese's Art and History |
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Torre del Mangia - Mangia Tower |
Piazza delCampo | Siena | Wonderful city's overview |
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Museum Opera Metropolitana - Museum of the Cathedral |
Piazza del Duomo | Siena | Several works of art ranging from 13th to the 17th century. - It exhibits the "Majesty" by Duccio di Buoninsegna |
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Libreria Piccolomini - Piccolomini Library |
Piazza del Duomo | Siena | |
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Archivio di Stato - Museo delle Tavolette di Biccherna - Palazzo Piccolomini |
Via Banchi di Sotto | Siena | The museum exhibits about 130 wooden tablets painted by famous Sienese's artists between 1257 and 1659 -Free entrance |
| - Museo Archeologico Nazionale - National Archeological Museum |
Piazza Duomo | Siena | It shows a rich collection of archeological objects and historical documents from prehistory to Romans's age. |
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Pinacoteca Nazionale**** - National Picture Gallery - Palazzo Buonsignori |
Via S. Pietro, 29 | Siena |
The Museum contains the greatest collection of Tuscany's paintings from XIII to XV century. |
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Orto Botanico - Botanical Gardens |
Via P.A. Mattioli | Siena | Free entrance |
| - Public Library |
Via della Sapienza | Siena | Free entrance |
| - Sanctuary and House of Santa Caterina |
Costa di S. Antonio | Siena | Free entrance |
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Enoteca Italiana - Italian Wine Exhibition and Tasting |
Fortezza Medicea | Siena | Free entrance |
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- Monte dei Paschi di Siena Bank -- - Art Collection |
Palazzo Salimbeni | Siena | 0577-290000 by Appointment |
| - Spedale Santa Maria della Scala |
P.za del Duomo | Siena | In the ancient Siena Hospital.- Many frescos and work of art collect during his millenary history. |
| - Medicee Chapels |
P.zza Madonna | Florence | Medici family's mausoleum |
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- Galleria degli Uffizi**** |
P.zza della Signoria | Florence | A large collection of masterpieces of Italian paintings from XIII to XVIII century. Works of art by: Giotto, Simone Martini, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Masaccio, Beato Angelico, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Canaletto, Tiepolo, Duccio di Buoninsegna, Cimabue, Gentile da Fabriano, Michelangelo, Paolo Uccello, Veneziano, Leonardo, Giorgione, Botticelli. |
| - Pitti Palace |
P.zza Pitti | Florence | Very beautiful Palace, it contain some of the most important Florentine Museums. |
| - Museum of Porcelain |
P.zza Pitti | Florence | The collection consist, mainly, of table Porcelain used by the Grand Ducal and Royal House of the Medici, Lorraine, Savoy. |
| - Boboli Garden |
P.zza Pitti | Florence | Very beautiful and interesting italian garden. |
| - Academy Gallery |
Via Ricasoli | Florence | The gallery exhibits numerous works of art. |
| - Archeological Museum |
Via della Colinna | Florence | Etruscan Museum - It contains the bronze statue of "The Chimera" |
| - National. Museum of Bargello |
Via del Proconsolo | Florence | Large collection of Rinascimental sculptures. Several works of art by Michelangelo. Extremely rich collection of works, mainly sculptures. It contains minor works by Michelangelo. |
| - Palazzo Vecchio |
P.zza della Signoria | Florence | It contains masterpieces of Michelangelo and numerous Tuscan paintings. |
| - Spedale degli Innocenti Gallery |
P.zza S.Annunziata | Florence | The Gallery contains paintings on table, frescos,furniture and a series of wonderful illuminated manuscripts. |
| - Anthropology Museum |
Via del Proconsolo | Florence | Free entrance |
| - Opera S. Croce Museum. |
P.zza S. Croce | Florence |
It shows the famous Crucifix by Cimabue |
| - Museum of History and Science |
P.zza dei Giudici | Florence | Important collection of scientific instruments, among which that used by Galileo Galilei, as the telescopes and compasses that the great scientist used to observe the planets. |
| - Zoology Museum La Specola |
Via Romana | Florence | The rich zoological collection consist of one million animal specimens, 5,000 of which are on display. |
| - Modern Art Gallery |
P.zza Pitti | Florence | Impressive collection of Tuscan Artists. |
| -Museum of Geology and Paleontology |
Via La Pira | Florence | Most important in Italy - 300.000 fossils and rock samples. |
| - Guarnacci Archeological Museum | Volterra | Volterra | It contains 600 cinerary urns and impressive collection of Etruscan coins in gold, silver and bronze. The filiform votive figure known as Ombra della Sera " ( Shadow of the evening), represents exquisite example of Etruscan sculpture |
| - Hypogeum of the Volumni Museum | Perugia | Perugia | Most famous Etruscan tombs in Umbria, dates back to the 2nd century bc. - It preserves important collection of funerary urns. |
| - National Gallery of Umbria | Palazzo dei Priori | Perugia | Many works by Duccio di Buoninsegna, Piero della Francesca, Beato Angelico . Important collection of paintings by "Pietro Vannucci" called "Perugino" |
| - "Faina"- Museum of Archeology | Orvieto | Orvieto | The museum houses the famous Greek statue called "The Venus" found in the sanctuary of the Cannicella Necropolis.- Collection of Attic vases and Etruscan coins. |
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- E. Greco Museum | Orvieto | Orvieto | It shows 32 bronze sculptures and other works of Emilio Greco, who also produced the bronze door of the Orvieto Cathedral. |
| - National Archeological Museum | Castello della Badia | Vulci | An old 13th century Abbey gives hospitality to the museum. It preserves many finds from the nearby Necropolis. |
| - National Museum of Archeology | Tarquinia | Tarquinia | Housed in Palazzo Vitelleschi, it's one of the most important Etruscan Museums. It houses archeological items founded in the surrounding area. |
| - The Ex voto Museum |
Madonna d. Quercia | Viterbo | The museum contains about 200 different votive tablets. |