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The Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan, Italy.

Visiting the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan: practical guide for first-time visitors

The Pinacoteca di Brera at Via Brera 28 in Milan is one of the most important art galleries in Italy. It was founded by Napoleon in 1809 and holds a collection of Italian painting from the 13th to the 20th century that is without equal…

Colonna Palace, Rome: practical guide for first-time visitors

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: practical guide for first-time visitors

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…

Michelangelo's David in the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence.

Visiting the Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence: practical guide for first-time visitors

The Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence is home to Michelangelo's David — and to four unfinished Prisoners, a late Pietà, and one of the finest collections of Florentine Gothic and Renaissance painting in existence. This guide was updated in June 2026. Three things to know before…

Visiting Città del Cioccolato, Perugia: practical guide for first-time visitors

Città del Cioccolato (City of Chocolate) is Italy's largest experiential museum dedicated to cacao and chocolate, housed in the restored Ex Mercato Coperto (Covered Market, 1932) at Via della Rupe, Perugia. It opened on 30 October 2025 — a venue so new that most guides…

Bargello Museum, Florence: practical guide for first-time visitors

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…

The National Archaeological Museum in Naples, Italy.

National Archaeological Museum in Naples (MANN): practical guide for first-time visitors

The Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN) at Piazza Museo 18/19 holds the most important collection of Graeco-Roman antiquities in the world, including treasures excavated from Pompeii, Herculaneum, and the Farnese collection. This guide was updated in June 2026. Four significant alerts apply for 2026.…

Visiting the Leonardo da Vinci Interactive Museum, Venice: practical guide for first-time visitors

The Da Vinci Interactive Museum (Museo Interattivo Leonardo da Vinci) is housed in the Scoletta di San Rocco at Campo San Rocco, San Polo 3052 in Venice. The building was constructed in 1494 as the first seat of the Confraternity of Saint Roch, and retains…

Inside the Enzo Ferrari Museum in Modena, Italy.

Visiting the Enzo Ferrari Museum, Modena: practical guide for first-time visitors

The Museo Enzo Ferrari (MEF) at Via Paolo Ferrari 85 in Modena is the birthplace of the man who founded Ferrari and the second site of the official Ferrari museum network. The striking yellow pavilion — designed by the late London architect Jan Kaplický of…

Visiting the Uffizi Gallery, Florence: practical guide for first-time visitors

The Galleria degli Uffizi on Piazzale degli Uffizi in Florence, Italy, holds the world's greatest collection of Italian Renaissance painting and one of the most important collections of Western art. This guide was updated in June 2026. Three pricing tiers now apply — most guides…