Museo Civico Archeologico and Area Archeologica di Fiesole

The Civic Archaeological Museum and the Archaeological Area of Fiesole, together, told the story of the populations that inhabited Fiesole. From the Etruscans to the Longobards, this suggestive place hosts the possibility of making a real leap into the past.

Museo di Palazzo Vecchio

Palazzo Vecchio represents a symbol for Florence. Seat of government for over seven centuries, Palazzo Vecchio takes us on a real journey through the history and art of Florence.

Museo degli Innocenti

The Museum, housed in the Istituto degli Innocenti, offers the visitor three thematic itineraries - History, Architecture, Art - which together give life to a unified narration that presents the documents collected in the historical archive, the spaces where the life of the little ones welcomed in the structure, the works of the artists who have contributed to making the place for the children beautiful and welcoming.

Colonial Florence

In the “cradle of the Renaissance,” the city’s colonial past remains barely visible, yet streets, monuments, and plaques still recall enterprises and figures often removed from collective memory. From Piazza Adua, with its Rationalist architecture, to the obelisk in Piazza dell’Unità — where plaques celebrating the construction of the Nation appear in an uninterrupted sequence — and finally to the sculpture of Hercules strangling the lion, the traces of our colonial past, mostly forgotten or concealed, help narrate the very history of Italian colonialism in Eritrea, Somalia, Libya, Ethiopia, and Albania, territories subjected first to liberal governments and later to the Fascist regime between 1885 and 1941.

With thanks for content and inspiration to: Postcolonial Italy.

In collaboration with The Recovery Plan.

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Special thanks for consultation to Carmen Belmonte and Agnese Ghezzi.

A new mosque in Florence

Nel quartiere di Sant’Ambrogio si trovano tre importanti luoghi per la comunità locale, che da anni si impegna attivamente nella promozione del dialogo interreligioso e del rispetto reciproco tra le principali religioni monoteiste. Qui, fra la cupola verde della Sinagoga e la storica Chiesa di Sant’Ambrogio è stata recentemente inaugurata la nuova Moschea, luogo di incontro e culto per le preghiere collettive, con uno spazio per le abluzioni e un'area riservata alle donne. Sebbene l'edificio non presenti cupole né minareti, rispetta pienamente l'organizzazione e la liturgia del rito islamico, facendosi segno visibile della comunità islamica fiorentina da sempre radicata sul territorio.

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*In collaborazione con la Comunità islamica di Firenze

**Per le visite alla moschea di prega di contattare la segreteria

Museo Bandini

The museum owes its name to the canon Angiolo Maria Bandini (Fiesole, 1726 - 1803), a great scholar and, since 1756, librarian of the Laurentian Library of Florence, whose monumental catalog he compiled. In contact with some of the most important personalities of the Bandini period, he developed a marked sensitivity for antiques and collecting, so much so that he himself brought together his own collection of works of art in a "Sacred Museum".

Museo del Novecento

Inaugurated on 24 June 2014, the Museo Novecento is dedicated to 20th century art and offers a selection of works from the civic collections, which broadly illustrate Italian art from the first half of the 20th century.

Villa Medicea La Petraia

Between the 16th and 18th centuries, geographical discoveries opened up an unknown horizon of lands, people, cultures, art objects, botanical species, coming from distant worlds. Villa Medici La Petraia still retains traces of this passion for the exotic, from the portrait of a young albino from Angola, to Chinese watercolors and decorated porcelain vases, the objects tell the gaze that Europe has placed on the world.

Borgo e Chiesa di Santa Maria a Peretola

The church is located in the suburb of Peretola, the place of origin of the Vespucci family. It dates back to the 12th century and its structure still preserves an original Romanesque part. In the following centuries the church, administered by the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova, was enriched with many works of art, including a marble, bronze and glazed terracotta ciborium by Luca della Robbia, the first example of the use of the glazed majolica made famous later from the Della Robbia workshop.

Other Places

AMIR Visits in Other Locations

Museo Primo Conti

The Primo Conti Foundation Museum collects sixty-three paintings and one hundred and sixty-three drawings by the Florentine artist. The works cover a chronological arc that extends from 1911, the year of his artistic debut with the self-portrait of surprising beauty and expressive "maturity", to 1985. The Museum allows you to study, through the work of Primo Conti, the development of artistic events in Italy and in Europe, in the twentieth century.

Complesso di Santa Maria Novella

The Monumental Complex of Santa Maria Novella was founded in the early decades of the 13th century, when the first Dominican friars settled in Florence, and it underwent gradual expansion over the following centuries. The visit includes the majestic Basilica with its masterpieces, as well as the adjacent Civic Museum with its beautifully decorated monumental cloisters.

Black Presences in Florence

A journey through the city centre to uncover the traces of a little-known history: that of slavery in Renaissance Florence.
The itinerary begins at Palazzo Medici, where the Chapel of the Magi preserves a significant portrait, and continues with the account books from the Fondo Cambini of the Archive of the Istituto degli Innocenti, which document the arrival of Black enslaved women in the second half of the fifteenth century. It concludes with the Chapel of Saint Joseph in the Church of the Santissima Annunziata, created in a theatrical Baroque style by Francesco Feroni, who built his immense fortune through the Atlantic trade of enslaved Africans.

With thanks to the Metropolitan City of Florence and to Justin Randolph Thompson with Black History Month Florence.

Queering Florence: The History of Homosexuality in the Renaissance

The need for purification requires scapegoats, and in late medieval and Renaissance Florence these were often identified among women and sodomites. Adopting the theology of a God who punishes the entire world for the sins of a few, the city authorities intermittently sought to safeguard the purity of society, defending the unity of the city-family and its urgent demographic growth. The visit explores the various ways in which cultures have historically constructed sexual identity through norms, prohibitions, and rites of passage, sometimes choosing repression and at other times celebrating diversity.