Art & Museums
The museums and galleries that hold Italy's paintings and sculpture, and what to look for when you get there.
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Uffizi Gallery
Florence's great museum of Western painting, where the Medici collection turns the Renaissance into a room by room encounter.
Bargello National Museum
Florence's oldest public palace turned first national sculpture museum, home to Donatello's bronze David.
Capitoline Museums
The world's first public museum, on the star-paved piazza Michelangelo designed for Rome.
Places to see
Galleria Borghese
A villa gallery in Villa Borghese park, with Bernini’s Apollo and Daphne, six Caravaggios in Room VIII, and Canova’s Pauline Bonaparte.
Gallerie dell'Accademia
The full arc of Venetian painting, from Bellini to Veronese, in a former convent on the Grand Canal.
Egyptian Museum
Opened to the public in 1832 after a royal acquisition in 1824, Turin’s Museo Egizio brings together Kha and Merit’s burial goods, monumental Karnak statuary and the Nubian Temple of Ellesiya.
Naples National Archaeological Museum
Naples's museum of Pompeii and Herculaneum finds, the Farnese Marbles, and the Alexander Mosaic.
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