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Museums in the Charatcteristic Oltrarno Distric in Florence



Florentine art and culture, which make the city famous around the world, are not only a prerogative of the museums in the city centre, but are scattered throughout the whole Oltrarno area. Wherever your apartment in Florence is, it will always be close to a museum. Right in the Oltrarno area there are some of the most well known Florentine museums and you can’t consider your vacation over until you visit at least some of them. You will certainly find your favourite exhibition among the large and small collections of Florentine museums.

If the Uffizi gallery charmed you, start your visit from the Oltrarno Museums with the Palatina gallery, in the Pitti palace. Take your time to look at all the Italian and international masterpieces of the Baroque and Renaissance period in the various rooms of the palace.

If you are fond of paintings, but even if you just want to please your eyes, you can continue the discovery of Oltrarno museums with a visit to the Modern Art gallery. More than two thousand artworks are collected here to give you a bright sample of Italian and European painting history.

However, if you are up for something new and you are interested in knowing how the wealthy families of Medici and Lorena used to live, the museum for you is the "museo degli Argenti" (Silverware museum). You will be delighted by the rare and precious objects of the collection, realized in silver and enriched with ivory and gems. If the mueso degli Argenti has titillated your senses, why don’t you complete your visit to the the Porcelain museum? It’s right on top of the hill of the Boboli garden, so you could kill two birds with one stone and have a look at the garden too. With a visit to the Real apartments your plunge in the Medici world can be considered complete.

Fond of fashion? The Costume museum is an absolutely exceptional shop window: on dispaly here you will find not just the XVIII century sumptuous ball dresses, but the eccentric dresses of the sixties.Who knows if you can find some interesting suggestion for you look?

As you enter the Specola museum, one of the oldest natural sciences museums , you actually enter the world of science. If your kids are with you, they`ll surely be fascinated by the hundreds of stuffed animals and the wax anatomical models.

 

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