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Free Museum Monday
List of places is Tuscany that offer a free visit on Boxing Day:
Thirty-one museums of the Regional Directorate of Tuscany will be open for Boxing Day and other holidays and twenty-seven on 1 January free for the usual initiative of Sunday at the museum , all museums will be closed on 25 December.
1-Museums open in Florence
In Florence there will be numerous festive openings for the National Archaeological Museum where the exhibition “Treasures from the lands of Etruria. The collection of the Counts Passerini, Patrizi of Florence and Cortona” and where the director Mario Iozzo will hold three free guided tours on 1 January at 15.00, 16.00 and 17.00. On the first floor, the exhibition “1422-1822. From Horapollo to Champollion: the hieroglyphs and their deciphering” which traces the history of the discovery with volumes and finds selected from the museum’s warehouses.
The Museum of San Marco (closed on 1 January) together with the Last Supper by Andrea del Sarto and Sant’Apollonia celebrates the holidays and to welcome the public to San Marco, in addition to the masterpieces of Beato Angelico and the halls of Savonarola , there will be the new preparation of the small Refectory with the Last Supper by Ghirlandaio, a new bookshop and a multilingual App for visits.
The Park of Villa il Ventaglio promises enchanting walks and panoramic views of the city along paths and paths, with small stops and stops that tell its story in the new panels installed along the avenue designed by the Florentine architect Giuseppe Poggi, who here anticipated the solutions then adopted for the famous Viale dei Colli.
The four Medici Villas of the Regional Directorate and Villa Corsini in Castello, the Medici Villa of Petraia, the Garden of the Medici Villa of Castello, the Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi and the Medici Villa of Poggio a Caiano with the Museum of Still Life are always open for free . which exhibits over two hundred works from the collections that belonged to the Medici.
2-Museums open in Arezzo
Even in Arezzo , festivals at the museum for the Basilica of San Francesco with the extraordinary pictorial cycle of the Legend of the True Cross by Piero della Francesca; at the National Archaeological Museum “Gaio Cilnio Mecenate” you can also admire the collection of Apulian ceramics donated by the Festa family.
The Casa Vasari Museum, the National Museum of Medieval and Modern Art, the Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions of the Upper Tiber Valley – Palazzo Taglieschi in Anghiari (closed on 1 January) are open with the exhibition “Stories of Women. From Albrecht Dürer to the contemporaneity of Ilario Fioravanti” and the Archaeological Area of Sodo in Cortona (closed on 1 January).
3-Museums open in Grosseto
In the province of Grosseto you can visit the archaeological areas of Vetulonia, Roselle and the ancient city of Cosa, in that of Prato the archaeological area of Comeana and the tumulus of Montefortini.
4-Museums open in Lucca
In Lucca the two national museums of Palazzo Mansi and Villa Guinigi are celebrating Boxing Day and New Year ‘s Eve where the restored lead sarcophagus of Antraccoli has been on display for a few days now, a unique find that tells the story of the life and burial of a man in Tuscany in the 4th century AD .
On the island of Elba festive openings for the two Napoleonic residences of Villa San Martino and the Palazzina dei Mulini.
5-Museums open in Pisa
In Pisa the national museums of San Matteo, Palazzo Reale and the Museum of Ancient Ships are open (closed on 1 January) where in almost 5000 square meters of exhibition area and 47 sections divided into 8 thematic areas, seven boats from the Roman era are exhibited , datable between the 3rd century BC and the 7th century AD, four of which are substantially intact, and together with about 800 finds tell a millennium of commerce and sailors, routes and shipwrecks, navigation, life on board and the history of the city of Pisa.
The Certosa di Calci (closed on 1 January) welcomes the public with accompanied visits to the evocative rooms rich in art and history that housed the Carthusian order from the 14th to the 20th century, the large cloister, the monks’ cells, the church, the numerous chapels, the refectory and the chapter house and with a selection of works by Igor Mitoraj donated to the State in 2018 and temporarily placed in the evocative spaces of the Certosa pending the creation of the museum dedicated to the artist in Pietrasanta.
6-Museums open in Pistoia
In Pistoia , from the top of the walkways of the Fortress of Santa Barbara , it will be possible to discover extraordinary views of the city and visit the permanent exhibition “ Fortress of water. Hydraulic energy in the history of man” with sections also dedicated to children.
In Monsummano Terme , in the rooms of the house museum of the poet Giuseppe Giusti , among the ornaments, the ideal landscapes and the allegorical scenes of the interior decorations, one can relive the atmosphere of the family home in the romantic climate of the first decades of the 19th century.
7-Museums open in Siena
The National Etruscan Museum of Chiusi has opened in the province of Siena where, in addition to the innumerable masterpieces, the Sphinx in fetid stone, one of the symbols of the museum ideally introduces a journey to the roots of Tuscan identity: from Villanovan cinerary vases such as the “Cover of the embrace ” which represents an extraordinary scene of an embrace between two terracotta figures, to the characteristic canopic jars (VII-VI BC), anthropomorphic-shaped vases intended to receive the ashes of the deceased, among which the Canopo di Dolciano stands out and the very rich exhibition of sculptural finds with memorial stones, urns, female statues of mourners.
