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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
Checked
August 2026
Price
€€

Herbert Percy Horne bought a fifteenth century palace near Santa Croce and filled it with what he collected, then left the lot to the state. The result is small, quiet and almost always empty, and it does the thing no big museum can: it shows you the objects in rooms rather than on walls.

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