Museums

As Italy prepares for a general election on September 25, Eike Schmidt, the director of Florence’s state-run Uffizi Galleries — a group that also includes the…

​​After nearly three years of decreased tourist traffic, Venice is back to its usual saturation point this summer, in part due to the Biennale Arte currently…

A new museum dedicated to the Italian language has opened in Florence.  MUNDI, or Museo Nazionale dell’Italiano, is housed in a former monastery of the…

Rome has a new museum. Housed within the National Roman Museum in the Baths of Diocletian, the Museum of Rescued Art will display ancient artifacts from across…

To many people, cooking is considered an art. To others, comparing the two realms of human skill and imagination is more of an outrage. And in Italy, until not…

In the hills above Lake Garda in Gardone Riviera, a former dentist to the Italian royal family and Pope Pius XII transformed a 3.7-acre vineyard into a…

The Uffizi surpassed the Colosseum for number of visitors in 2021, in what was a first for the famous Florentine museum complex, which also includes Pitti…

Ancient books and kitchenware tell the history of cooking and eating habits from the 1400s to the present day at ‘Garum - Biblioteca e Museo della Cucina,’ the…

Palazzo Pitti in Florence inaugurates the new year with the opening of four rooms that had never before been accessible to the public.  The large rooms, which…

A striking feature of Milan is the elegant dwellings on almost every street. A stroll through Brera, the Quadrilatero della Moda or the Porta Venezia area is a…