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Florence Museums and Galleries

Florence Museums and Galleries

Florence · Italy

14 stops4.2 km51 min
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Quizzes
  • Offline

Follow a museum-focused walk through Florence, moving from the Corridoio Vasariano and fashion collections to science, art, civic history, and religious heritage. Along the way, you will encounter paintings, sculpture, historic interiors, scientific instruments, costume, and applied arts. The route is worth taking for its concentrated view of how different museums and galleries preserve Florence’s artistic and cultural stories.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.

  1. Vasari Corridor

    Vasari Corridor

    A secret ducal route turned museum, built in nine months above Florence’s streets and river.

  2. Costume Gallery Florence

    Costume Gallery Florence

    A royal palace wing where Florence’s history is told through clothes, costumes, and the people who wore them.

  3. Salvatore Ferragamo Museum

    Salvatore Ferragamo Museum

    A medieval Florentine palace tells the story of Ferragamo’s inventive shoes and his Hollywood world.

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza

    Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza

    A palace that became Florence’s home for Galileo, instruments, and the history of science.

  6. Galleria degli Uffizi

    Galleria degli Uffizi

    A Medici government building that became one of Europe’s earliest museums

  7. Perseus with the Head of Medusa

    Perseus with the Head of Medusa

    Cellini’s bronze Perseus turns a Medici political message into a daring feat of sculpture.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 8 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

8 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 14 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.

  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Something to answer

    A few questions as you leave a stop, written from the story you just heard.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.