Famous as the art capital of Italy Florence is rich in museums and art galleries that show the best of the Italian culture and art. The city has the best preserved Renaissance centers of art and architecture in the world and has a high concentration of art, architecture and culture.

• Museo di Storia Naturale: It is a major natural history museum having six major exhibits. It is a part of the University of Florence. Museum collections remain open since morning except Wednesday, and all day Saturday. There an admission fee is charged. The museum was founded on 21 February 1775 by Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo as the Imperial Regio Museo di Fisica e Storia Naturale. It has developed immensely during the passage of two centuries and has one of the finest collections in Italy.

• Museo dell’ Opera del Duomo: This museum preserves some of the original art works and sculpture from the Florence Cathedral as it contains important works by Michelangelo, Donatello, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Luca and Andrea della Robbia, and others.

• National Archaeological Museum: The National Archaeological Museum of Florence is an archaeological museum that is situated midst of the city. It is located at 1 piazza Santissima Annunziata, in the Palazzo della Crocetta.

• Institute and Museum of the History of Science: The Museum was founded in 1927 by the University of the Florence, Italy. It is situated in the Palazzo Castellani, by the River Arno and around premises to the Uffizi Gallery. One of the most famous of its collection is middle finger from the right hand of Galileo Galilei that was removed from there when Galileo’s remains were transported to a new burial spot on 12th March 1737.

• Uffizi: It is considered as one of the most famous and important art galleries in the world, it consist of art works from Giotto, Cimabue, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Donatello, Michelangelo and Raphael which are a few names to be kept in mind.

• Palatine Gallery: Situated on the first floor of The Palatine Gallery, it has collection of around 500 principally Renaissance paintings, that were once part of the Medicis’ and their successors’ private art collection. The gallery that that further extends into the royal apartments has works by Raphael, Titian, Correggio, Rubens, and Pietro da Cortona. Yet the character of the gallery is still that is of a private collection. In the museum these painting are arranged in chronological sequence as according to the school of art.

• Costume Gallery: Stated in a wing known to be as the “Palazzina della Meridiana”, this gallery has a collection of theatrical costumes as old as from the 16th century until the present time. This is the only museum in Italy that talks about the Italian fashions. Other than theatrical costumes, the gallery also shows garments worn between the 18th century and the present day. Their some of the exhibits are like the Palazzo Pitti that includes the 6th-century funeral clothes of Grand Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici, and Eleonora of Toledo and her son Garzia, both of whom died of malaria. The gallery also shows an exhibition of mid-20th century costume jewellery.

• Carriages Museum: This ground floor museum exhibits carriages and other conveyances as used by the Grand Ducal court primarily in the late 18th and 19th century. Some of the carriages in the room are very decorative and adorned not only with by gilt but by the painted landscapes on their panels. They used it as on the grandest occasions, such as the “Carrozza d’Oro”. Other carriages on view are those used by the King of the Two Sicilies, and Archbishops and other Florentine dignitaries.

• Porcelain Museum: This museum is housed in the Casino del Cavaliere in the Boboli Gardens. It shows cases the porcelain notably from various European porcelain factories, with Sèvres and Meissen near Dresden and is being well represented. There are many large dinner services are there by Vincennes factory, that later on renamed as Sèvres, that is a collection of small biscuit figurines.

• Bargello: This museum preserves the classis works of art by Michelangelo, his primary buildings and paintings are Bacchus, Pitti Tondo, Brutus and David-Apollo. The other collections in the museum include Donatello’s David and St. George Tabernacle; Vincenzo Gemito’s Pescatore (“fisherboy”), Jacopo Sansovino’s Bacco; Giambologna’s L’Architettura and his Mercurio and many other works from the Della Robbia family. Benvenuto Cellini is represented with his bronze bust of Cosimo.

• Royal Apartments: This suite of 14 rooms used by the Medici family, and their successors altered in 19th century. They contain a collection of Medici portraits, primarily painted by the artist Giusto Sustermans. In contrast to the great salons containing the Palatine collection, some of these rooms are much smaller and are much suitable for day-to-day living. A period furnishing there includes four-poster beds and other necessary furnishings that can not be found at anywhere else in the palazzo. The Kings of Italyused the Palazzo Pitti in the 1920s though then was converted into a museum.

• Modern Art Gallery: This gallery was developed from recasting of the Florentine academy in 1748, when a gallery of modern art was made there. The gallery was made to keep prize winners in the academy competitions. The Palazzo Pitti was renovated in a grand style and this time new works of art were being reinstated over there. By the 1922, this gallery was shifted to the Palazzo Pitti and showcased with further modern works of art in the ownership of both the state and the municipality of Florence. The pictures by the Macchiaioli artists are of the distinguished note at that time and have been preserved here in the gallery.