Museums in Florence beyond the big three: prices, hours and closed days for the Bargello, Galileo, Brancacci Chapel and the rest

💡 The Short Version: Beyond the Uffizi, the Accademia and the Duomo, the Bargello is €12 (closed Mondays), the Museo Galileo €14 (open Mondays, shut at 13:00 on Tuesdays), the Brancacci Chapel €15 (open Mondays, closed Tuesdays), Palazzo Medici Riccardi €15, then €10 from 2 November (closed Wednesdays) and the Museo Novecento €13 (closed Thursdays). On Mondays, when the state museums are shut, the Galileo, the Brancacci, Medici Riccardi, the Novecento and Palazzo Vecchio are open. The Bargello, Orsanmichele and Palazzo Davanzati also open on three Monday evenings in October. Prices are in euros.

Closed days and late nights

Prices are the adult rate from each museum’s own site.

The Bargello

€12 · closed Mondays · Via del Proconsolo 4

The Bargello was founded in 1255 as the seat of the Podestà and opened as a national museum in 1865. The museum describes its Italian Renaissance sculpture as the most important collection in the world, with Donatello, Verrocchio, the Della Robbias and Michelangelo. The reservation is optional, and last admission is 50 minutes before closing. A 48-hour ticket for the Bargello and the Accademia is €26, and a 72-hour ticket for every open museum in the group is €38, each with a booking fee; see Accademia tickets. GetYourGuide’s reserved entryad, sold by GetYourGuide itself, is from €18.75.

The courtyard of the Bargello. Photo: Zairon, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.

Palazzo Davanzati and Orsanmichele

Davanzati €12 · Orsanmichele in the €38 group ticket · both closed Mondays

Palazzo Davanzati is a 14th-century house built by the Davizzi family, with rooms still decorated with medieval murals: the Hall of Parrots, the Chamber of Peacocks and the Chatelaine of Vergy room. From 25 September 2026 the Chatelaine of Vergy room, the Armour Room and the Dining Room on the second floor are closed for works. Orsanmichele was a medieval grain market turned church. Orcagna’s marble tabernacle (1359) is on the ground floor, and the original statues of the guilds’ patron saints, by Ghiberti, Donatello, Nanni di Banco, Verrocchio and Giambologna, are in the museum on the first floor. It has no lift or toilets, and the upper floor closes if the indoor temperature reaches 34 degrees.

The Museo Galileo

€14 · open Mondays, closes 13:00 on Tuesdays · Palazzo Castellani

The Museo Galileo says its instrument collections, assembled by the Medici and then the Grand Dukes of Lorraine, are among the most important in the world. Ages 6 to 18 pay €7, a family ticket is €32, and a Santa Croce ticket takes the price to €10. It is open Monday, and Wednesday to Sunday 9:30 to 18:00, and closed on 1 January and 25 December.

The Brancacci Chapel

€15 · open Mondays, closed Tuesdays · Piazza del Carmine

The Brancacci Chapel holds the cycle of St Peter that the merchant Felice Brancacci commissioned from Masolino and Masaccio in the 1420s. Ages 18 to 25 pay €10. It is open Monday and Wednesday to Saturday 10:00 to 17:00, and Sunday 13:00 to 17:00, and the ticket office closes 45 minutes before. With the Firenze Card a booked time is mandatory.

The Brancacci Chapel in Santa Maria del Carmine. Photo: sailko, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5.

Palazzo Medici Riccardi

€15 to 1 November, €10 from 2 November to 31 December · closed Wednesdays · Via Cavour 3

The palace was designed in 1444 by Michelozzo for the Medici. The ticket includes the Chapel of the Magi, the Mirror Gallery, the Archaeological Itinerary, the Marble Museum and the temporary exhibitions: “Beyond the Renaissance” to 5 January 2027 and “Saint Francis of Assisi and Giuseppe Nicola Nasini” to 31 January 2027. The Chapel of the Magi admits 10 people every 5 minutes for a 5-minute visit, so you may wait in the courtyard. Online tickets carry a €1.50 presale charge. Hours are Monday, Tuesday and Thursday to Sunday, 9:00 to 19:00, and the ticket office closes at 18:00.

The Museo Novecento

€13 · closed Thursdays · Piazza Santa Maria Novella 10

The Museo Novecento shows Italian art of the 20th and 21st centuries in the former Spedale delle Leopoldine, with a Victor Man exhibition from 26 September 2026 to 7 March 2027. Ages 18 to 25 pay €9. It is open daily 11:00 to 20:00 except Thursday.

The Leonardo Interactive Museum

From €8.91 on GetYourGuide · 1 hour

The Leonardo Interactive Museumad is run by the museum itself and sells tickets only online, for a chosen day and time. Visitors can try working models of machines drawn in Leonardo’s codices, such as the tank, the catapult and the printing press. It is for ages 7 and up, and the entrance is a few steps from the Accademia.

What to see

1. Sculpture: the Bargello for Donatello and Michelangelo, and Orsanmichele for the guilds’ statues.
2. A medieval house: Palazzo Davanzati, for its painted rooms.
3. Masaccio: the Brancacci Chapel, in Piazza del Carmine.
4. Science: the Museo Galileo, in Palazzo Castellani.
5. The Medici at home: Palazzo Medici Riccardi, for the Chapel of the Magi.
6. Modern art: the Museo Novecento, by Santa Maria Novella.

What to skip: the Museo Novecento and the Leonardo Interactive Museum on a first visit, if the list is Renaissance art.

Free and discounted

• First Sunday of the month: the state museums are free, including the Bargello, Palazzo Davanzati, the Medici Chapels, the Museo di San Marco and the Archaeological Museum. The next are 1 November and 6 December 2026, and 4 November 2026 is free too. Casa Martelli is closed to 31 December 2026.
• Under 18: free at the Bargello group of museums and at Palazzo Medici Riccardi.
• Firenze Card: it covers all of these. See Firenze Card: is it worth it?.

Santa Croce, Santa Maria Novella and the other churches have their own prices and Sunday hours. What to book before you go to Florence has the closed-day table for every sight, and Florence in one or two days fits the museums round the Monday and Thursday closures. Pitti Palace and Boboli covers the other state museum across the river. Where to stay in Florence compares the areas, and Florence public transport has the fares.