The other museums in Florence, Italy: tickets, prices, opening hours and closing days

Beyond the six museums everyone books, Florence has a good twenty that cost between €8 and €15 and often take an hour to see. Some are among the finest places in the city — the Chapel of the Magi, the Brancacci Chapel, the Museo Galileo — and they stay half empty on the days when the Uffizi is airless. Here are the official price, opening hours, closing day and address, museum by museum.

Science, twentieth-century art and great collections

Museo Galileo

Piazza dei Giudici 1, on the riverside next to the Uffizi. Full price €14, reduced €7 for ages 6 to 18, family €32, free under 6; €10 with many concession schemes and with a Santa Croce ticket; booking €1. Open 9:30–18:00 on Monday and from Wednesday to Sunday, Tuesday 9:30–13:00 only.

It is not state-run: it does not take part in the free first Sunday, but it is in the Firenze Card circuit. Allow one to two hours, suitable from about age 7-8. Current exhibition: “Mirabilia Graphica”, 18 June to 18 October 2026. Who it suits: anyone who wants real instruments — Galileo’s telescopes, the armillary spheres — rather than the reconstructions at the Leonardo da Vinci Museum.

Museo dell’Opera del Duomo

Piazza del Duomo 9. It cannot be bought on its own: it is included in all three passes from the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore, from the €15 Ghiberti Pass to the €30 Brunelleschi Pass. Open daily 8:30–19:00, closed on the first Tuesday of the month. Twenty-eight rooms and more than seven hundred works: Ghiberti’s original Gates of Paradise, Michelangelo’s Bandini Pietà, Donatello’s Magdalene, the cantorie. Lifts and a free audio guide on the OperaGuide app; count on 60-90 minutes. The pass rules are on Florence Duomo.

Museo Novecento

Piazza Santa Maria Novella 10, in the Spedale delle Leopoldine. Full price €13, reduced €9, free under 18, +€1 online. Open 11:00–20:00, last entry one hour before, closed on Thursdays: it is the only museum in the city with that closing day. Exhibition: “Ottone Rosai. Poeta innanzitutto”, 7 March to 4 October 2026.

Museo Stefano Bardini

Via dei Renai 37, entrance at Piazza de’ Mozzi 1. Full price €10, reduced €7, free under 18, +€1 online. Open only Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday from 11:00 to 17:00. The Bardini-blue walls and the original Porcellino: a second-visit museum, for people coming back to Florence, perhaps before walking up to Piazzale Michelangelo.

Palaces, chapels and artists’ houses

Palazzo Medici Riccardi

Via Cavour 3. The price is seasonal: full €15 and reduced €10 from 1 March to 1 November, full €10 and reduced €7 for the rest of the year. Free from 0 to 17. Open 9:00–19:00, closed on Wednesdays, with ticket desk and bookshop closing at 18:00. Online advance sale costs €1.50, cannot be bought for the same day and is neither refundable nor changeable.

The reason to come is the Chapel of the Magi by Benozzo Gozzoli, and here you need patience: a maximum of ten people every five minutes, with a wait in the Michelozzo Courtyard. The ticket also covers the Gallery of Mirrors, the archaeological route, the Museo dei Marmi and the exhibitions: “Oltre il Rinascimento” from 10 September 2026 to 5 January 2027 and “San Francesco d’Assisi e G.N. Nasini” from 24 September 2026 to 31 January 2027.

Casa Buonarroti

Via Ghibellina 70. Full price €8, reduced €5 for students up to 26, over-65s, groups of 10 and — a useful detail — anyone holding a Santa Croce ticket. Open 10:00–16:30, ticket desk closed at 16:00, closed on Tuesdays. The house Michelangelo bought and his heirs turned into a monument: the Madonna of the Stairs and the Battle of the Centaurs are here. Exhibition: “Michelangelo verso il mito”, 1 April to 30 September 2026.

Museo Marino Marini

Piazza San Pancrazio. Full price €10, reduced €8 under 30, €6 for ages 6 to 18, family €25, free under 6. Open only Saturday, Sunday and Monday from 10:00 to 19:00, last entry 18:00; on other days by booking only. The route includes the Tempietto del Santo Sepolcro by Leon Battista Alberti, in the Rucellai Chapel: worth the ticket on its own.

Museo de’ Medici

Watch the address, because the museum has moved: it is now in the Rotonda del Brunelleschi on Via del Castellaccio and in the Chiesa degli Angeli at Via degli Alfani 39, no longer in Palazzo Sforza Almeni. Open daily 10:00–18:00, full price €10, reduced €5; free for residents of the Comune di Firenze and under 7. The expansion added the Chiostro degli Angeli, the Cappella Ticci and the Refectory with Ghirlandaio’s Supper at Emmaus.

Frescoes, church-museums and places of worship

Brancacci Chapel

Piazza del Carmine 14. Full price €15, reduced €10, free under 18, +€1 online. Open Monday and Wednesday to Saturday 10:00–17:00, Sunday 13:00–17:00, closed on Tuesdays; the ticket desk closes 45 minutes earlier. The chapel admits ten people at a time for a maximum of thirty minutes: booking is strongly recommended, and Firenze Card holders still have to book a free ticket.

The restoration is finished and the scaffolding has come down: the frescoes by Masaccio, Masolino and Filippino Lippi can be seen from the floor. The multimedia guide and the bookshop remain suspended.

Orsanmichele

Via dell’Arte della Lana. Since it joined the Bargello Museums circuit, the church-museum of the Florentine guilds charges: €10, reduced €2 for EU citizens aged 18 to 25, free under 18. Open Tuesday to Sunday 8:30–18:30, closed on Mondays, last entry forty minutes before. One clarification: the announcement that unified the GAMB group’s hours gave 8:15–18:50 for every site, but the Orsanmichele page still publishes 8:30–18:30 while the Bargello, the Medici Chapels and Palazzo Davanzati have moved to the new timetable. Orsanmichele is the one remaining exception: if you plan to arrive at opening time, it is worth re-checking the page the day before.

The ticket includes free themed tours in Italian, one hour, maximum fifteen people: Tuesday to Friday at 11:00 and 14:30, Saturday four sessions between 10:00 and 16:00, Sunday at 11:00 except the first of the month. Two warnings: it is not accessible to people with mobility disabilities and it has no toilets.

Synagogue and Jewish Museum

Via Farini 6. Full price €9, reduced €5 for children aged 6-14, students up to 26 and groups; free under 6 and with the Firenze Card. June to September Sunday–Thursday 10:00–18:30 and Friday 10:00–17:00; October to May Sunday–Thursday 10:00–17:30 and Friday 10:00–15:00. Closed on Saturdays; ticket desk closed 45 minutes earlier, metal detector at the entrance. The official site states expressly that synagogue and museum stay closed to the public on Saturdays and on Jewish holidays, and publishes the calendar — Pesach, Shavuot, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot and Simchat Torah — with some days closing early. It is the page to check if your trip falls in September or in spring.

The green dome you can see from Piazzale Michelangelo is its own.

Fashion, childhood and family museums

Museo Salvatore Ferragamo

Palazzo Spini Feroni, Piazza Santa Trinita 5/R. Full price €10; reduced rates of €6 and €5 under numerous schemes; free under 18 and over 65, as well as Firenze Card and ICOM. Open daily 10:30–19:30, closed only on 1 January, 15 August and 25 December. No last-entry time is published: the museum says only that hours may change and invites you to confirm. The 19:00 you find on some third-party listings does not appear on the official site, so do not count on it.

Current exhibition: “Salvatore Ferragamo 1898-1960”, extended to 14 February 2027. Guided visits in four languages are free by email booking. The Ferragamo museum sits in the maison’s historic palazzo, a couple of minutes from Palazzo Strozzi.

Museo degli Innocenti

Piazza Santissima Annunziata 13. Full price €9, reduced €7 for ages 11-17, €6 with a same-day Accademia ticket; free up to the age of ten and with the Firenze Card. Daily 10:00–19:00, last entry one hour before. It opens on the first Sunday of the month too, but you pay. The website also shows 9:30–19:00: that figure appears only in the footer, identical on every page, while the “Orari e biglietti” page gives 10:00 in Italian and in English. The latter is the one to trust.

This is Brunelleschi’s foundling hospital, with Andrea della Robbia’s tondi and a route about abandoned children that hits harder than you expect. On the roof is the Caffè del Verone, a panoramic terrace you can reach without a ticket, daily from 10:00 to 21:30: one of the few free high views in the centre. Exhibition: “Artemisia Gentileschi a Firenze”, 21 October 2026 to 4 April 2027.

HZERO

Piazza degli Ottaviani 2r. Full price €14, reduced €9, children aged 4-13 €7, free under 4; family from €24 to €41. Wednesday to Sunday 10:00–19:00, last entry 18:00, closed Monday and Tuesday. A 280-square-metre model railway with more than seventy trains and a treasure hunt across over a thousand scenes: it works with small children, where the Leonardo museums do not reach yet.

Pinocchio Museum Experience

Via Ricasoli 44, on the street that leads to the Accademia Gallery. Full price €14, reduced €10 for ages 4-17 and students up to 25, free up to 3; family from €35 to €52. Daily 10:00–19:00, with immersive sessions every forty minutes from 10:00 to 18:00; closed on 25 December, 1 January and at Easter. Allow about an hour. Book ahead: the Pinocchio museum runs in timed groups and places are counted.

Museo del Calcio

Viale Aldo Palazzeschi 20, in Coverciano, outside the centre. Daily 10:00–18:00, no lunch break. Full price €12, reduced €6 for ages 6-14, free up to 5; family from €28 to €36; guided visit €14; ticket with the Technical Centre €20. Audio guide via app included. The shirts and memorabilia of the national team: if you are travelling with a football fan, this is the half-day they will remember.

The museum that no longer exists, and a note on online prices

If you still find the Museo Nazionale Alinari della Fotografia in Piazza Santa Maria Novella recommended somewhere, know that it closed some time ago and no longer exists: the collections now belong to the Fondazione Alinari per la Fotografia, which is not a museum with visiting hours. Leave it off the plan. Add instead, if you are in Florence between June and mid-October, the Forte di Belvedere: it opens only in season, costs €8 and is free for residents of the Metropolitan City.

On the platforms these museums cost more than the box office: Orsanmichele €18 against €10, the Ferragamo €15 against €10, the Synagogue €13 against €9, HZERO €18 against €14, the Museo de’ Medici €12 against €10; the Museo del Calcio is the exception, at the same price. You buy online for a guaranteed slot, to pay by card and for cancellation where it is offered, not to save money: at these amounts the honest choice is nearly always the desk, except where entry is capped.

Fitting these Florence museums into your itinerary

Three rules. On Mondays these museums save the day, because only the state ones close: Galileo, Novecento, Medici Riccardi, Innocenti, Ferragamo, Brancacci, Bardini and Marino Marini are all open. Tuesday takes out the Brancacci and Casa Buonarroti, and the Galileo closes at 13:00. Thursday costs you the Museo Novecento, and Palazzo Vecchio closes at 14:00.

If you expect to see more than three or four of these museums in Florence, Italy over three days, do the sums against the Firenze Card on Passes: almost all of them are in the circuit. For the order of visits there is What to do, while the full picture of prices and opening hours across the city is on Tickets.