Other Museums
Book your visit to the Leaning Tower of Pisa, one of the most famous monuments and symbol of Italy all over the world, part of the beautiful Piazza dei Miracoli (Miracles Square).
Not only do the well-known masterworks by Michelangelo kept in the Casa Buonarroti come from the family patrimony; the same is also true of paintings, sculptures, majolicas and the archaeological sections arranged on the museum's two floors.
The new permanent museum hosts the largest and most beautiful machines taken from Leonardo da Vinci's codes. They were build starting from the careful study of Leonardo's drawings, creating machines which work to a perfection that has never before been achieved. The machines which were exceptional in interpretation, size, beauty and construction systems are: the flying machines, the hydraulic saw, the column raiser, printing machine etc.
Alinari National Museum of Photography
While the Museum of the History of Photography has collected material evidence of the work of the photographer and of the artistic evolution of photography in its over 160 years of history, it has also assembled the instruments responsible for the perpetuation of what can rightly be considered the finest pictures of an epoch. The importance of this Museum is thus also revealed in the collection of cameras, of advertising, of paper documents, of frames and all those objects connected to the photograph which can be considered an integral part of its history.
Spedale degli Innocenti Gallery
Among the exposed works, to notice the splendid "Adorazione dei Magi" (1488) by Domenico Ghirlandaio, commissioned for the high altar of the church; the sweet "Madonna col Bambino" (around 1450) by Luca della Robbia; the "Madonna in trono col Bambino e Santi" (1493), masterpiece by Piero di Cosimo made for a lateral altar of the church; a "Madonna col Bambino" by Sandro Botticelli, emulating the more famous by Filippo Lippi; a delicate painting about "Incoronazione della Vergine" by the Master of the Strauss Madonna (around 1405).
The museum that resides in the building today has a fine collection of 14th and 15th-century art, including two frescos on the life of St. Peter, painted by Ventura di Moro and Rossello di Jacopo Franchi. However, the most famous piece of art at the Bigallo Museum is the 1342 fresco by Bernardo Daddi, the Madonna della Misericordia (Madonna of Mercy), which is the earliest picture of Florence in existence.
