The Casa Buonarroti Museum is entirely dedicated to Michelangelo Buonarroti. Although the great painter, sculptor and architect never lived here, his family built the house entirely in his memory – and furnished it with his works.
The Casa Buonarroti is a museum and a monument, a place of remembrance and celebration of Michelangelo’s genius and at the same time a magnificent Baroque apparatus and an exhibition of the family’s rich art collections.
The Casa Buonarroti is a speciality among Florentine museums and offers the opportunity to admire two famous marble reliefs – masterpieces from Michelangelo’s early youth: the Madonna of the Stairs, an intense testimony to Michelangelo’s passionate study of Donatello, and the Battle of the Centaurs, an eloquent sign of his never-ending love of classical art.
But it is also worth opening the door of the 17th century palazzo for the other artefacts collected. Here, Michelangelo’s works are combined with the centuries-long history of the Buonarroti family, who did everything they could to enlarge and embellish the residence, preserve valuable cultural assets (including the important archive and library) and collect rare art collections: Paintings, sculptures, majolica, archaeological finds, which are now spread over the two floors of the museum.
On the second floor, a selection from the collection of two hundred and five valuable works by Michelangelo is on display in a specially designed room.
Wednesday to Monday: 10 am – 4.30 pm
Last admission 30 minutes before closing time.
Closed on: Tuesdays, 1 January, Easter Sunday, 15 August and 25 December
Admission to the Museo Casa Buonarroti is already included in your Florence City Pass.
Lines:
C1: to Proconsolo stop
C2: to the Ghibellina Pepi stop
6 & 14: to Colonna 01 stop
Via Ghibellina 70
50122 Florece
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