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How to see art in Florence without queueing

🖼️ see art without queueing

Museums, cloisters and painted refectories in Florence that hold major work and almost no visitors.

The places

Chiostro dello Scalzo €€

A small cloister painted entirely in grey monochrome by Andrea del Sarto, free, open only on certain days, and known almost exclusively to art historians.

Area
San Marco
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Giunti Odeon €€

An Art Deco cinema inside a Renaissance palazzo, now half bookshop and half screening room, showing films in their original language.

Area
Duomo
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La Specola €€

The Medici zoological collection: room after room of animals from around the world, including a hippopotamus that once lived in the Boboli gardens.

Area
Oltrarno
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Museo Galileo €€

Globes, telescopes, early clocks and a great deal of brass, in a small museum next to the Uffizi that children get through in an hour.

Area
Santa Croce
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Museo Horne €€

The house of an English collector, kept as he left it in 1916, with furniture, paintings and objects arranged as a Renaissance home rather than a gallery.

Area
Santa Croce
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Museo Novecento €€

Italian twentieth century art in a former hospital on Piazza Santa Maria Novella, in a city that otherwise stops at 1600.

Area
Santa Maria Novella
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Museo Stibbert €€

A Victorian collector's house on a hill north of the centre, with a hall of life sized armoured knights on horseback and a park with an Egyptian temple.

Area
Montughi
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The Bargello €€

A medieval fortress and prison holding Donatello's David, Michelangelo's Bacchus and the best sculpture collection in the city, with a fraction of the queue at the Accademia.

Area
Centro
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