Sunday at the Museum in Tuscany with free admission – Michelangelo Buonarroti is back

Today, May 5th, the event returns Sunday at the Museumthe initiative of the Ministry of Culture which provides free entry on the first Sunday of every month to all the monuments, museums, galleries, parks and monumental gardens of the State.

Many of the state cultural places of the Regional Directorate of Tuscany museums spread throughout the regional territory will also be open for free with temporary exhibitions still in progress, thematic visits and initiatives.

TO Florence for example, they will be open to the public for free, among others the National Archaeological Museum, the Cenacle of Andrea del Sarto in San Salvi, the Accademia Gallery, the Uffizi and the Bargello.

You can visit the treasures of the historical parks and Medici Villas out of doors like Poggio a Caiano and Cerreto Guidi or Florence of the Park of Villa il Ventaglio and the Romantic Park of Medici Villa della Petraia recently reopened.

But the most awaited masterpiece is found in Garden of the Medici Villa of Castellowhere, freed from the scaffolding, it becomes visible again Animal Cave recently restored with its spectacular menagerie sculpted with dozens of animals in polychrome marble, the extraordinary tubs and inlays of shells and multicolored stones that have recovered the original enchantment and above all with the ancient water features restored and turned on every Saturday and on Sundays at 10.30, 12.30, 16.00 and 18.00. Furthermore, until June 30th, accompanied visits by the staff will continue inside the Cave from Thursday to Sunday, at 11.00 and 17.00 without reservation.

All archaeological areas are also open:the Tumuli of Montefortini and Boschetti in Comeana (PO), The mound of Hard to Cortona, the National Archaeological Museum of Castiglioncello and in the province of Grosseto you can admire them archaeological areas of Vetulonia, of the ancient city of Cosa and Roselle.

To Arezzo and province all state museums are ready to welcome visitors and tourists: la Basilica of San FrancescoThe National archaeological museum Gaio Cilnio Maecenas and the Roman amphitheatre,The National Museum of Medieval and Modern Art, The Vasari House Museum and the Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions of the Upper Tiber Valley – Palazzo Taglieschi.

TO Lucca the national museums of. can be visited free of charge Palazzo Mansie Villa Guinigi.

On the island of Elba open at two Napoleonic residences Of Villa San Martino and of Mills building.

TO Pisa both national museums open: a Royal Palace at 11am the museum staff will show visitors the former collection of the House of Savoy, while at San Matteo Museum the professor. Marco Collareta will hold a conference at 11 on the two panels painted by Domenico Ghirlandaio between 1478 and 1479, preserved inside the museum and depicting “Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints”, a type of fifteenth-century altarpiece called “Sacred Conversation”. Coming from the convent of San Girolamo in Pisa, the panels are those that Vasari recalls being painted by Ghirlandaio for the Gesuati friars in Pisa. After the abolition of the Congregation of the Gesuati in 1688, the paintings passed, with the convent and related properties, to the Benedictine nuns of Sant’Anna and from there to the Museum of San Matteo.

Also open Calci Charterhousewith accompanied visits with reservations required.

TO Monsummano Terme (PT) you can visit the rooms of the house museum of the poet Giuseppe Giusti.

In the province of Siena will be open on National Etruscan Museum of Chiusi and thehermitage of San Leonardo al lago in Monteriggioni.

Some museums are open exclusively with mandatory reservations, all details on opening times and entry methods on museotoscana.

For the moment, your always Michelangelo Buonarroti greets you and will meet you in the next posts and on social media.

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