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Choco-Story Torino guide: Ticket prices, hours & top tips

Choco-Story Torino at Via Paolo Sacchi 38 in Turin is a dedicated chocolate and gianduja museum in the basement of the historic Pfatisch pastry shop, part of the 14-location international Choco-Story museum network. It holds over 700 objects tracing the history of cacao from the…

Galata Maritime Museum, Genoa: Ticket prices, hours & visitor tips

The Galata Museo del Mare in the Porto Antico (old port) of Genoa is the largest maritime museum in the Mediterranean. It covers 12,000 m² across five levels and 31 galleries, with five full-scale ship reconstructions, a live submarine moored outside, and the most compelling…

Museo Maradona, Naples: Ticket prices, hours & what to see

The Museo Maradona – Collezione Vignati in the Quartieri Spagnoli (Spanish Quarter) of Naples is a permanent museum of over 150 authentic objects belonging to Diego Armando Maradona. It was assembled by the Vignati family — whose matriarch Lucia was Maradona's Neapolitan housekeeper and confidante…

Murano Glass Museum: Transport, ticket prices and top tips

The Museo del Vetro on the island of Murano in the Venetian lagoon is the world's most comprehensive museum of Murano glass history. It's housed in the former Bishop's Palace of Torcello — a building constructed in the 7th century. This guide was updated in…

Natural History Museum of Venice: Prices, hours, transport and visitor tips

The Museo di Storia Naturale di Venezia occupies the Fontego dei Turchi — a 13th-century Byzantine palazzo on the Grand Canal. It holds prehistoric fossils, live aquarium specimens, Saharan dinosaur skeletons, and one of the most important natural science research collections in northern Italy. This…

Leonardo da Vinci Museum of Science and Technology, Milan: Ticket prices, hours & tips

The Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci (MuST) in Milan is Italy's largest science and technology museum. It covers 50,000 m² in a 16th-century Olivetan monastery, holding over 16,000 objects spanning Leonardo's inventions, transport history, energy, communication, and space. The current…

National Etruscan Museum, Rome: Visit tips with ticket prices & hours

The Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia at Piazzale di Villa Giulia 9 in Rome is the world's most important museum of Etruscan civilisation, housed in a spectacular Renaissance villa built for Pope Julius III in 1551. This guide was updated in June 2026. The…

Florence Synagogue and Jewish Museum: Ticket prices, hours & visitor tips

The Sinagoga e Museo Ebraico di Firenze at Via Luigi Carlo Farini 6 is one of the most important Jewish monuments in Italy. A grand Moorish-style synagogue inaugurated in 1882, it's complemented by a two-floor museum covering 700 years of Jewish life in Florence. This…

Museo de Medici, Florence: Visitor tips with ticket prices & hours

The Museo de Medici at Via degli Alfani 39 in Florence occupies the Rotonda Brunelleschi — the 15th-century octagonal building at the corner of Via del Castellaccio, designed as the chapter house of the former Monastery of the Angels. The museum tells the history of…

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…