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
- Address
- Via Federico Stibbert 26
- Collection
- Around fifty thousand objects
- Left to the city
- 1906
- Park
- Free to enter
- Checked
- August 2026
- Price
- €€
- Go for
- A hall of life sized armoured figures on horseback, in the house of a Victorian collector who left everything exactly as he arranged it.
- Skip if
- You will not leave the centre. It is on a hill north of the city and needs a bus.
What everybody agrees on
Read across public reviews on Google and TripAdvisor in September 2026.
- Nearly all
The Sala della Cavalcata is what people remember: a procession of mounted figures in real armour, European and Ottoman, drawn up in one long hall.
- Most
It is a collector's house rather than a museum, and the arrangement is his rather than a curator's. Reviewers find this either fascinating or overwhelming.
- Often
The Japanese armour is unexpectedly strong, and one of the larger collections outside Japan.
- Often
The park is free and almost empty, with a lake and a small Egyptian temple.
- Some
Visits to the house are by guided tour at set times, which people arriving on spec do not expect.
What to order
Check the tour times before you set out, then arrive early and spend the wait in the park rather than at the gate.
Before you go
- Getting there
- Bus 4 from Santa Maria Novella station, about fifteen minutes.
- Entry
- The house is by timed guided tour. The park is free.
- With children
- The armour hall works from about six.
Frederick Stibbert was born in Florence to a British family, inherited a fortune and spent it on about fifty thousand objects: European, Islamic and Japanese arms and armour, costume, furniture, tapestries. He left it all to the city when he died in 1906, and it is still arranged the way he left it.
The Sala della Cavalcata is the room people remember. Life sized figures in real armour, European and Ottoman, mounted and drawn up in formation down one long hall.
The park outside is free and usually empty: an English style garden by Giuseppe Poggi with a lake, a small Egyptian temple and grottoes. Bus 4 from Santa Maria Novella station, about fifteen minutes.