Museo Galileo, Florence: Visit tips, with ticket prices & hours

The Museo Galileo at Piazza dei Giudici 1 in Florence, Italy, is the world's most important museum of scientific instruments. It holds the finest surviving Medici and Habsburg-Lorraine scientific collections alongside Galileo's own telescopes, quadrants, and — most striking of all — his preserved middle…

Colonna Palace, Rome: Visitor tips, ticket prices & hours

The Palazzo Colonna at Piazza SS. Apostoli 66 is the oldest continuously inhabited private palace in Rome, Italy. It is still home to the Colonna family, and contains one of the most sumptuously decorated Baroque galleries in the world. This guide was updated in June…

La Scala Theatre Museum, Milan: Hours, ticket prices & visit tips

The Museo Teatrale alla Scala at Largo Ghiringhelli 1 in Milan occupies the neo-classical building attached to the world's most famous opera house, Teatro alla Scala. It holds 240 years of opera history in costumes, portraits, musical instruments, set designs, and archival material. This guide…

Bargello Museum guide: Ticket prices, hours & what to see

The Museo Nazionale del Bargello at Via del Proconsolo 4 in Florence is the world's most important collection of Italian Renaissance sculpture — and one of the most undervisited major museums in the city. It houses two bronze Davids (Donatello and Verrocchio), Michelangelo's Bacchus and…