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MUSEO DELL'OPERA DEL DUOMO

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Piazza del Duomo, 9, Florence - Firenze , Italy
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2024
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2024

A jewel of modernity, the cathedral museum offers a spectacular scenography worthy of the masterpieces it houses.

This large museum of twenty-eight rooms spread over three floors gathers the treasures once contained in the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, Brunelleschi's dome, Giotto's campanile, St. John's baptistery and the Santa Reparata crypt. After several years of colossal work, it has become a jewel of modernity and offers a spectacular scenography, equal to its masterpieces.

Among the important collection of Florentine sculpture from the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, one can admire the monumental Pietà (1547-1555), unfinished by Michelangelo (who mutilated it because of an imperfection in the marble), and created when the master was nearly eighty years old. On the second floor, in the room dedicated to the artistic representation of religious music, the Cantorie by Luca della Robbia and Donatello, and thePenitent Magdalene by Donatello, are worth seeing. The original and restored panels of Lorenzo Ghiberti's Door to Paradise are also worth seeing. It allows a very interesting perspective of the evolution of the themes but also, and especially, the work of the sculptors on the compositions of bodies and emotions.

The highlight of the show is undoubtedly the spectacular Hall of Paradise, which displays a reconstruction of the original facade of the cathedral of Florence, dismantled in 1587. The visit to the museum ends with a panoramic terrace overlooking Brunelleschi's dome.

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isa et jy
Visited in september 2017
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Magnifique musée contenant les statues originales qui se trouvaient autrefois sur la façade du Duomo et les portes du baptistere dorées a l or fin !Que d èmotions dans ce musée !Visite incontournable !
fute_63156
Visited in april 2017
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Le musée est compris dans le billet combiné. On peut y voir les portes du Baptistère ainsi qu'une reconstitution de la façade originale de la cathédrale et la Pièta de Michel-Ange. Il faut compter 1h-1h30 de visite pour pouvoir tout voir.
Rather than to queue to visit the basilica Santa Maria del Fiore, it is better to be the museum right to side which contains works and especially the explanations on this superb basilica. Moreover, I found this museum deserted (in comparison with the other monuments of Florence). Recommended Audioguide.

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