Tuesday in Art: Free entrance to Florence’s Museums in the evening

13 Oct 2011

Next months in Florence continues the initiative “Tuesday in Art“, launched in April 2011 until the end of the year. The event, scheduled for the last Tuesday of each month, will be held October 25th, November 29th and December 27th, 2011.

For the occasion, the museums that participate to the initiative will make some special openings, from 19:00 to 23:00, where it will be possible for anyone visit for free the most beautiful museums in Florence ,gratis.

Tuesday in Art is a project organized by the Italian Minister for Heritage and Cultural Activities arranged in many parts of Italy, including Florence, that will also allow at those people who work all day and does not have the time to enjoy the artistic beauty of Florence and its museums.

An excellent initiative to make known to everyone, Italians and foreigners, the richness of our cultural heritage and do something different and suggestive.

List of museums that participate to Tuesday in Art:

  • Cappelle Medicee, Piazza Madonna degli Aldobrandini
  • Galleria degli Uffizi e corridoio Vasariano , Via Della Ninna
  • Galleria dell’Accademia, Via Ricasoli – October 26 Opening hours from 20:30 to 0:30
  • Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Piazza Pitti
  • Galleria Palatina e appartamento Palazzo Pitti, Piazza Pitti
  • Museo del Bargello, Via del Proconsolo
  • Museo San Marco, Piazza S. Marco
  • Palazzo Davanzati, Via Porta Rossa.

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In Florence, walking for Museums. Bus Museum 2011

06 Oct 2011

Museo Bus 2011 FirenzeBus Museum is an initiative of the Museum of Natural History, University of Florence, that offer to citizens and visitors the opportunity to visit the city and some of the most important museums of Florence by bus.

During your trip you will have a guide who will accompany you all the day.

The initiative of Museum Bus, started this summer, will end on 7th and 8th October.

The goal is to bring citizens closer to the culture and to discover the wonders of Florence.

Every event have a different theme, based on the visit of two different museums, with an expert who will be at your disposal for any questions or curiosity.The itinerary on the Bus Museum and the guides are free, is required only the payment of the entrance to the museums, with reduced rates.

Places are limited. To participate you must book at the number 055/2346760 (Monday to Friday 9.00-17.00).Do not miss this unique opportunity, get carried away by the beauty of Florence, and If you plan to stay in Florence for a few days, you can book a room in the hotel chain Ars Hotels, in the center of Florence.

Program of the appointments:

• Friday, October 7 10:00 am

“Artists of yesterday, today’s artists”

Meeting at the Museo Marino Marini Piazza San Pancrazio. Head to the Museum of the Casa Buonarroti.

Participation fee € 6.50

• Saturday, October 8 9:30 am

“Galileo, a house and a museum”

Meeting at the Museum of Galileo, Piazza dei Giudici 1. Continue to the Villa Il Gioiello * (Pian de ‘Giullari).

Participation fee € 8.00

At the end of each route is guaranteed the return to the museum of departure.

Further details at: www.museogalileo.it

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Gucci Museum in Florence

15 Sep 2011

Museo Gucci FirenzeTo celebrate 90 years of the maison, on September 26th, 2011 will be opened in Florence the Gucci Museum, at Palazzo della Mercatanzia in Piazza della Signoria. The exhibition is over three floors and 1,700 square feet of space. At the entrance is located the Cadillac Seville, designed by Gucci in 1979, in the three upper floors can see the most celebrated pieces of the history of the brand. There will also be photos, images and more details creations of recent years, such as Gucci Cruiser bicyle, a limited edition bike, and surf boards produced in two colors, red and blue.

Gucci large area of ​​the museum will be dedicated to horse riding. Some symbols, the tape strips from the terminal based on the girth of the saddle, are still details of the iconic brand. An additional space of the museum will host clothes designed for celebrities, actors and actresses who have trod the red carpet leading to the world, both past and in recent years.

borsa Gucci

In the basement will be guarded but the archive with the most valuable pieces, the whole history of the brand. For the opening show of the best craftsmen of the brand to an audience of selected customers and the press the craftsmanship with which bags are still produced icons such as the Bamboo Bag, the New Jackie, G Wave.

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The Treasure of the Kremlin in Florence

15 Aug 2011

mostra tesoro cremlino firenzeUntil 11th September 2011 at the Museo degli Argenti of Palazzo Pitti in Florence you can visit the exhibition “Treasury of the Kremlin”.

The approximately 150 works on display present the unique development of one of the most important treasures of Europe: the Kremlin Armory, the richest collection of the oldest Russian museum that collects real treasures, objects of daily use and the court ceremonial of the biggest names associated with the Tsar of Russia through several centuries of history.

From the twelfth to the eighteenth century, the Armory was in fact the “treasure room”, full of precious objects: jewelry, armor, embroidery from Byzantine, Russian, Persian, Turkish and European Union, helped with the pomp of the court of the Tsars. When, in the eighteenth century, the Court moved from Moscow to St. Petersburg, the Armory was designed to accommodate items related to the ceremony of coronation robes and sumptuous stately.

The exhibition includes a selection of 19 works from the Medici collections, arrived in Florence as a valuable diplomatic gifts to the tsars of Russia Grand Duke of Tuscany, to witness the profound intercultural relations between the two courts at the end of the sixteenth century until the early decades of the eighteenth century.

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Lorenzo Bartolini exhibition in Florence

01 Aug 2011

Bartolini mostra FirenzeUntil November 6th 2011 at the Galleria  dell’Accademia in Florence,  you can visit the first major exhibition dedicated to Lorenzo Bartolini (1777-1850), an artist whose work played a central role in development of sculpture in Italy, Europe and the United States.

The exhibition is inspired by the extraordinary group of plaster models stored in Accademia Gallery and brings the highest level of quality Bartolini’s production, highlighting the wealth of artistic interests ranging on various topics ranging from those of an intimate nature and sentimental, to the monumental themes, in which, not infrequently, reveals his political participant in the historical events of his time.

Through the works on display are highlighted the most important commissions of sculptures, shown alongside those of decorative art produced by his studio, also in great demand by the protagonists of the cosmopolitan society that animated the cultural life of Florence, a must on the Grand Tour.

scultura Bartolini mostraThe sculptor also happy portrait painter, is wanted by all the major European figures of the time in music, literature, politics, high finance and investigates psychological subtlety in a series of memorable portraits, like those of M.me de  Stael, Lord Byron, Franz Liszt, Gioacchino Rossini.

The Bartholin’s stylistic evolution is illustrated with 75 works. For the first time the nineteenth century will be visible again in Florence a number of important sculptures, testifying to the milestones of the affirmation of Bartolini.

The exhibition at the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence is open from Monday to Sunday from 8.15 to 18.50.
For information visit the official website of the exhibition. Phone: +39 055 284883

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Exhibition at Palazzo Pitti: “From the splendor of the court to the bourgeois luxury”

21 Jul 2011

Until 11th September 2011 at Palazzo Pitti in Florence you can visit the exhibition “From the splendor of the Court to the bourgeois luxury. The Precious Stones into united Italy.”

Palazzo Pitti Firenze
This is a show dedicated to the activity of the historic “Opificio delle Pietre Dure” (Precious Stones) of Florence and connects to the initiatives for the 150 years of unity of Italy, focusing on a specific theme, Florence and international at the same time: that of the new path which opened after 1861 for the brilliant artistic manufacture, which had flourished for three centuries to shadow of the grand ducal court of Tuscany, became famous throughout Europe for its inimitable creations in precious stones.

Wall panels, tables, boxes, sculptures made of precious stones and ornamental paintings captivate the beauty of rare stones, like the refined decorative inventions.

For further information visit the official exhibition’s website.

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