Bargello National Museum

Why go

This record is the museum, run as one of the Musei del Bargello, not the palace as a building and not the group's other sites such as the Medici Chapels. The museum's page says the palace was founded in 1255 as the first public building of medieval Florence, became the seat of the Podestà and later a prison and the seat of the Bargello, the city's police chief, and opened in 1865 as the first National Museum of the Kingdom of Italy. It lists works by Donatello, Verrocchio, the Della Robbia, Michelangelo, Giambologna and Cellini, alongside arms, ivories, enamels and majolica. The same page says booking is optional, that school groups must book, and that large backpacks and bags may not be taken into the museum.