On the evening of May 18th the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo in Florence will be open to the public free of charge from 7pm to midnight (last entry at 11pm), on the occasion of the European Night of Museums and the International Museum Day of Icom (International council of museums). Therefore, to enter you will not need a ticket or reservation.
The Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore takes the opportunity to show the public, on the media and social networks, a preview of the images of the Museum’s Sala del Paradiso taken for the first time with a drone by the photographer Fabio Muzzi, which they make visible to all the extraordinary heritage, inserted in an innovative and educational exhibition, is explained in a note. In the Hall of Paradise (36 x 20 x 20 metres) the originals of the three majestic doors of the Baptistery are preserved, including that of Paradise from which the hall takes its name, and a colossal scale model (in resin and marble 1:1 of the ancient façade of the Florence Cathedral (built by Arnolfo di Cambio starting from 1296, never finished and destroyed in 1587) with the sculptures still existing including those by Arnolfo di Cambio.
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