 Ticket to the Accademia Gallery Museum and open-top bus tour - Florence
Ticket to the Accademia Gallery Museum and open-top bus tour: € 57 per person.
The Galleria dell'Accademia collects sculptural and pictorial works from the Renaissance. Among the exhibited artists Donatello, Luca della Robbia, Verrocchio, Michelangelo, Cellini, Giambologna, Paolo Uccello, Botticelli, Perugino, Filippino Lippi, Ghirlandaio.
But certainly a visit is a must for art lovers because the Gallery houses Michelangelo's David, taken away from Piazza della Signoria in 1873 and exhibited here in 1882.
The history of the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence begins in 1784 when the sixteenth-century Academy of Design Arts was reformed.
The Gallery was born in 1784 at the behest of the Grand Duke of Tuscany Pietro Leopoldo who thus wanted to reform the Academy of Design Arts, founded in 1563 by Cosimo I de' Medici, into the modern Academy of Fine Arts.
Unfortunately, given the concentration of works of art - it exhibits the largest collection of works by Michelangelo - entering the Accademia Gallery always involves a wait that can reach hours. But by buying the skip-the-line ticket, the wait can be greatly reduced or even eliminated.
After visiting the Accademia Gallery, you can discover Florence on board an open-top bus thanks to your hop-on hop-off ticket, valid for 24 or 48 hours.
An original and comfortable way to visit Florence and move quickly and freely from one place to another in the city to reach the tourist attractions that make up your stay in Florence.
Hop aboard a CitySightseeing double-decker convertible bus to discover the city of Florence. With the freedom to get on and off when you want for the entire duration of the purchased ticket.
CitySightseeing offers 2 different bus lines that allow you to reach many places of cultural interest in Florence.
CitySightseeing is a fun way to explore the city while listening to onboard commentary about the history of the buildings and monuments you see. By downloading the Sightseeing Experience app you will find a free walking tour of the center available in 8 languages and an interactive map showing the position of the buses in real time, the waiting time at each stop and your position in order to easily reach the stop nearest.
24, 48 hour tickets are available.
What is included in the Ticket to the Accademia Gallery Museum and open-top bus tourin Florence
– Entrance to the Galleria dell'Accademia with priority access.
– Ticket delivery service.
– Access to temporary exhibitions.
– Tickets of 24, 48 hours for open bus hop-on hop-off.
– Pre-recorded commentary available in 8 languages.
– "Sightseeing Experience" app with recorded walking tour.
– Facilitated access for disabled people in wheelchairs.
– Free Wi-Fi connection on board.
Meeting point of Ticket to the Accademia Gallery Museum and open-top bus tourin Florence
– Skip-the-line ticket: 15 minutes before the booked time at the Accademia Gallery. Accademia Gallery - Via Ricasoli 58, Florence.
Duration of the visit with the Ticket to the Accademia Gallery Museum and open-top bus tourin Florence
– Free during museum hours.
Times and days for the Ticket to the Accademia Gallery Museum and open-top bus tourin Florence
– Museum hours and days.
Languages available for the Ticket to the Accademia Gallery Museum and open-top bus tourin Florence
– English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese.
Terms of cancellation of the Ticket to the Accademia Gallery Museum and open-top bus tourin Florence
The reservation can be canceled with a 100% refund up to 24 hours before the start.
Accessibility and useful information for the Ticket to the Accademia Gallery Museum and open-top bus tourin Florence
– Accessible for people with reduced mobility and in wheelchairs. |
Works of art in the various rooms of the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence
The Collection of the Galleria dell'Accademia sculptural works of the Renaissance. Among the exhibited artists Paolo Uccello, Sandro Botticelli, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Filippino Lippi, Pontormo, Michelangelo, Bronzino, Giambologna, Bartolini, Pampaloni.
The itinerary welcomes the visitor in the Salone del Colosso - where the plaster cast of one of the dioscuri placed in the fountain in front of the Quirinal in Rome was once housed - which today houses the plaster cast of the Rape of the Sabine women by Giambologna whose original it is in the Loggia dei Lanzi in Piazza della Singoria.
Here the walls display paintings of the Florentine school of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries signed by Paolo Uccello, Botticelli, Perugino, Filippino Lippi, Ghirlandaio.
Continuing we arrive in the Galleria dei Prigioni which houses four sculptures by Michelangelo depicting male nudes, the Prigioni. These are works created for the tomb of Julius II but which ended up decorating the Grotta del Buontalenti in the Boboli Gardens at the behest of the Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici. Also in this space are the Pietà di Palestrina and the San Matteo, always by Michelangelo.
The Gallery ends in the grandstand which houses Michelangelo's David, taken away from Piazza della Signoria in 1873 and exhibited here in 1882.
Continuing to the left you reach the Gipsoteca which houses a collection of paintings and sculptures by 19th century artists which include the plaster casts of Lorenzo Bartolini, the greatest exponent of Purism, and those of his pupil Luigi Pampaloni.
The following space, known as Sala Duecento and the early fourteenth century, exhibits the richest collection in the world of gold-ground paintings by the greatest Florentine artists such as the Maestro della Maddalena, Giotto, the Maestro della Santa Cecilia, Bernardo Daddi, Taddeo Gaddi, Andrea Orcagna, Nardo di Cione, Giovanni da Milano, Agnolo Gaddi.
A series of rooms are dedicated to painting that form an itinerary that goes from the late Gothic to the Renaissance of the fifteenth century - works by Paolo Uccello, Sandro Botticelli, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Filippino Lippi - up to sixteenth-century painting - works by Fra' Bartolomeo, Andrea del Sarto and Pontormo - to the great altarpieces of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Finally, the Museum of Musical Instruments is also part of the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence, which exhibits around 50 instruments from the Medici and Lorraine collections, i.e. from the Grand Ducal era (second half of the 17th century and first half of the 19th century). The pieces are true masterpieces of luthier art: a tenor viola, a cello, a violin by Antonio Stradivari, a cello by Niccolò Amati.
Masterpieces of the Galleria dell'Accademia
– Taddeo Gaddi: Stories from the Life of Christ and Saint Francis (1335)
– Giovanni di Ser Giovanni called lo Scheggia: Cassone Adimari Scenes of Dance (1450)
– Filippino Lippi: Saint Mary Magdalene, Saint John the Baptist (1496)
– Filippino Lippi and Pietro Vannucci known as Perugino: Deposition of Christ (1504-7)
– Michelangelo Buonarroti: David (1501-4), Saint Matthew (1505), Atlas (1525-30), The Young Slave (1530), Bearded Prison (1530), Prison Waking Up (1530), Pietà of Palestrina (1550 -60)
– Bronzino: Deposition (1560)
– Giambologna: Rape of the Sabine women (1582)
– Jacopo Carucci known as Pontormo: Venus and Cupid (1533)
– Amati cello (1650)
– Stradivarius cello (1690)
– Stradivarius violin (1716)
– Lorenzo Bartolini: Arnina (1825)
– Luigi Pampaloni: Girl playing with the dog (1830) |
History of the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence
The history of the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence begins in 1784 when the sixteenth-century Academy of Design Arts was reformed.
The Gallery was born in 1784 at the behest of the Grand Duke of Tuscany Pietro Leopoldo who thus wanted to reform the Academy of Design Arts, founded in 1563 by Cosimo I de' Medici, into the modern Academy of Fine Arts.
The new Academy occupied the premises of the fourteenth-century Hospital of San Matteo and those of the Convent of San Niccolò di Cafaggio and it was decided to make available to students a gallery that housed works of art on which to build knowledge, study by imitating previous artists.
The museum subsequently received works from churches and convents suppressed first by Pietro Leopoldo in 1786 and then by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1810. But the pivotal event in the history of the Museo della Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence is the entry onto the scene of David by Michelangelo, taken away from Piazza della Signoria in August 1873 and exhibited here starting in 1882 in a grandstand designed by the architect Emilio De Fabris. |
How to reach the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence
The Galleria dell'Accademia is located in the center of Florence, a few steps from Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore.
Arrive by train
From Santa Maria Novella Station you can reach it on foot in about 15 minutes (1400 m).
Arrive by bus
From S. Maria Novella Station bus lines 1 and 17. The closest bus stops are Pucci Duomo, Piazza San Marco, Via Battisti: bus lines 10, 14 and 23, 31, 32.
Arrive by car
The closest car parks are Garage Michelangelo, Parck 2Go. They are located just 150 meters on foot from the Accademia Gallery. |
