Museums & galleries in Italy
Detourmap maps 313 museums & galleries worth the detour in Italy — art, history and science museums. The best known is Uffizi Gallery. The 150 most notable are listed here; the rest are on the map. Each has a photo and a Wikipedia article.
-
Uffizi Gallery
Museums & galleries · 16th century · Renowned
Palace and art museum in Florence, Italy
-
Palazzo Pitti
Museums & galleries · 15th century · Renowned
Renaissance palace and museum in Florence, Italy
-
Palace of Caserta
Museums & galleries · 18th century · Renowned
Former royal residence in Caserta, Italy
-
Capitoline Museums
Museums & galleries · 15th century · Renowned
Municipal museum of the city of Rome, Italy
-
Bargello National Museum
Museums & galleries · 19th century · Renowned
Art museum in Florence, Italy
-
Museo di Capodimonte
Museums & galleries · 18th century · Notable
Art museum and historic site in Naples, Italy
-
Palazzo Medici Riccardi
Museums & galleries · 15th century · Notable
Palace and museum in Florence, Italy
-
Accademia Carrara
Museums & galleries · 18th century · Notable
Italian art gallery and academy of fine arts in Bergamo
-
Vasari Corridor
Museums & galleries · 16th century · Notable
Elevated enclosed passageway in Florence, Italy
-
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica
Museums & galleries · 19th century · Notable
Art museum in Rome, Italy
-
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Roma
Museums & galleries · 19th century · Notable
National Museum in Rome, Italy
-
Palazzo Grassi
Museums & galleries · 18th century · Notable
Palace and museum of arts on the Grand Canal, Venice
-
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Notable
Modern art museum on the Grand Canal in Venice
-
National Archaeological Museum
Museums & galleries · 19th century · Notable
Archaeological museum of Florence, Italy
-
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo
Museums & galleries · 19th century · Notable
Art museum in Florence, Italy
-
Accademia di San Luca
Museums & galleries · 16th century · Notable
Italian association of artists in Rome
-
Museo Galileo
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Notable
Italian museum for the history of science
-
Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia
Museums & galleries · 19th century · Notable
Archaeological museum in Rome
-
Scuola Grande di San Rocco
Museums & galleries · 16th century · Notable
Building in Venice, northern Italy
-
Punta della Dogana
Museums & galleries · 21st century · Notable
The triangular point where the Grand Canal meets the Giudecca Canal, its buildings, and the art gallery at the triangle's tip
-
Palace of Capodimonte
Museums & galleries · 18th century · Notable
Royal palace in Naples, Italy which is now used as a museum
-
Pisa Botanic Garden and Museum
Museums & galleries · 16th century · Notable
Botanic garden and museum in Italy
-
Gallerie d'Italia – Milano
Museums & galleries · 21st century · Notable
Art museum in Palazzo della Banca Commerciale Italiana, Milan, Italy
-
Triennale di Milano
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Notable
Cultural organization and museum in Milan, Italy
-
Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte
Museums & galleries · 19th century · Notable
Research institute in Naples, Italy
-
Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna
Museums & galleries · 18th century · Notable
Museum of arts in Bologna
-
National Museum of Oriental Art
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Notable
National museum in Rome, Italy
-
Galleria d'arte moderna di Milano
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Modern Art Museum in Milan
-
Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci"
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Museum in Milan, Italy
-
Pistoia Mountains Astronomical Observatory
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Observatory
-
Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
National art museum in Siena
-
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Art museum in Trento and Rovereto, Italy
-
Murano Glass Museum
Museums & galleries · 19th century · Hidden gem
Museum on the history of glass located on the island of Murano, Italy
-
Archeological Civic Museum of Bologna
Museums & galleries · 19th century · Hidden gem
Archaeological museum in Bologna, Italy
-
Astronomical Observatory of Abruzzo
Museums & galleries · 19th century · Hidden gem
Observatory in Teramo, Italy
-
Botanical Garden of Florence
Museums & galleries · 16th century · Hidden gem
Botanical garden in Italy
-
Palazzo Mansi National Museum
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Art museum in Lucca, Italy
-
Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni
Museums & galleries · Hidden gem
Historical scuola (confraternity house), now art gallery, in Venice, Italy
-
Museo di Scultura Antica Giovanni Barracco
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Art museum, historic site in Rome, Italy
-
Palace of Monza
Museums & galleries · 18th century · Hidden gem
Royal palace in Monza, Italy which is now used as a museum
-
Università di Firenze Museo Zoologico "La Specola"
Museums & galleries · 18th century · Hidden gem
Zoological museum in Florence
-
Giovio Musaeum
Museums & galleries · 16th century · Hidden gem
Art collection of Paolo Giovio existed in Como
-
Museo d'Arte Antica
Museums & galleries · 19th century · Hidden gem
Museum in Milan, Lombardy, Italy
-
Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Art museum in Milan, Italy
-
Museo dell'Opera Metropolitana del Duomo
Museums & galleries · 1st century · Hidden gem
Museum of Siena cathedral, Italy
-
Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova
Museums & galleries · 13th century · Hidden gem
Oldest hospital still active in Florence
-
Museo del Violino
Museums & galleries · 19th century · Hidden gem
Musical instrument museum in Cremona, Italy
-
Museum of Engines and Mechanisms
Museums & galleries · 21st century · Hidden gem
Technology museum in Palermo, Italy
-
Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli
Museums & galleries · 21st century · Hidden gem
Museum in Turin, Italy
-
Istituto nazionale per la grafica
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Institution for graphic design in Italy
-
Palazzo Ducale
Museums & galleries · 17th century · Hidden gem
Palace in Sassuolo, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
-
Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano
Museums & galleries · Hidden gem
Baroque palace located on Via Toledo number 185 in the quartiere San Ferdinando of central Naples, Italy
-
Museum of Deportation and Resistance
Museums & galleries · 21st century · Hidden gem
Museum in Prato, Italy
-
Donnaregina Contemporary Art Museum, Madre Museum
Museums & galleries · 21st century · Hidden gem
Museum of contemporary art in via Luigi Settembrini, Naples
-
Mackenzie Castle
Museums & galleries · 21st century · Hidden gem
Building in Genoa, Province of Genoa, Italy
-
National Museum of the italian Risorgimento
Museums & galleries · 19th century · Hidden gem
Museum in Turin, Italy
-
Museum Gherdëina
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Museum in Urtijëi, South Tyrol, Italy
-
Turin Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art
Museums & galleries · 19th century · Hidden gem
Modern and contemporary art museum in Turin, Northern Italy
-
Cloister of the Scalzo
Museums & galleries · 19th century · Hidden gem
Cloister in Florence, Italy, known for its cycle of frescos
-
Chiusi National Archaeological Museum
Museums & galleries · 19th century · Hidden gem
Museum in Chiusi, Italy
-
Sant'Apollonia
Museums & galleries · 14th century · Hidden gem
Former Benedictine convent in Florence, Italy
-
Galleria d'arte moderna Ricci Oddi
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Museum in Piacenza, Italy
-
Teatro Margherita
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Former theatre in Bari, Italy, converted to a museum
-
Leonardo Museum
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Museum of Leonardo da Vinci, Vinci, Tuscany, Italy
-
Palazzo Corsini
Museums & galleries · 17th century · Hidden gem
Palace and art museum in Florence, Italy
-
Bologna Museum of Modern Art
Museums & galleries · 21st century · Hidden gem
Museum in Bologna, Italy
-
Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Museum in Genoa, Italy
-
Citta di Castello Communal Art Gallery
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Civic art museum in Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy
-
Museo internazionale delle marionette Antonio Pasqualino
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Italian puppetry museum
-
Museo Nazionale Alinari della Fotografia
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Former museum in Florence, Italy
-
University History Museum, University of Pavia
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Museum in Pavia, Italy
-
National Archaeological Museum of the Marches
Museums & galleries · 19th century · Hidden gem
National archaeological museum in Ancona, the Marches, Italy
-
Santa Maria delle Nevi, Siena
Museums & galleries · 15th century · Hidden gem
Church building in Siena, Italy
-
Villa Carducci di Legnaia
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Museal institution in Tuscany
-
Natural History Museum of the University of Pisa
Museums & galleries · 19th century · Hidden gem
Italian natural history museum at Pisa
-
cloister of Bramante
Museums & galleries · 16th century · Hidden gem
Italian Renaissance building in Rome
