Art and fashion itineraries in Florence

Itineraries

  • Visit to Museums and Foundations: Museo della Fondazione Roberto Capucci
    On the upper floors of Villa Bardini, the museum explores the career and production of the great Roman designer, from the early 1950s onward. Exhibits include a series of “sculpture-dresses” (the permanent nucleus of the collection) and other high fashion creations shown on a rotation basis. Completing the museum offer are sketches, working drawings, and audiovisuals. Visit duration from 10 to 11 a.m.


    Reservations required: tel. + 39 055 23 40 742, fax + 39 055 24 41 45
    prenotazioni@cscsigma.it
    Accessible to the disabled. Difficult to reach. No parking.
    Fondazione Roberto Capucci
    Costa San Giorgio, 4, 50125 Florence, Italy
    Fondazione Roberto CapucciThe Fondazione Roberto Capucci was brought to its new home on the upper floors of the seventeenth century Villa Bardini, by the Fondazione Parchi Monumentali Bardini e Peyron, and is sponsored by the Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze. Th...
  • Visit to Museums and Foundations: Fondazione Arte della Seta Lisio
    Founded in 1971, the exhibition space hosts a collection of precious ancient fabrics, graphics materials, and sample swatches, dating from the Middle Ages to the early 19th century, that are still used for producing unique woven creations. The foundation is also a center for research and experimentation that designs contemporary fabrics. Visit duration from 10 to 11 a.m.

    Reservations c/o Sigma csc 055 234 07 42 fac 055 24 41 45
    prenotazioni@cscsigma.it
    Accessiblity for the disabled. Parking inside.
    Fondazione Arte della Seta Lisio
    Via Benedetto Fortini, 143
    Fondazione Arte della Seta Lisio
  • Visit to Museums and Foundations: Galleria del Costume - Palazzo Pitti
    The Galleria del Costume is one of the most important museums in Italy dedicated to the history of fashion. Over 6,000 items (clothing, textiles, accessories) dating from the 16th century to the 1920s are displayed on a rotating basis. Visit duration from 10 to 11 a.m.
    Accessibility for the disabled.

    Guided and free visit
    Reservations required - tel. + 390 055 23 40 742; fax + 30 055 24 41 45
    prenotazioni@cscsigma.it
    Galleria del Costume - Palazzo Pitti Firenze
    Piazza de' Pitti, 1, 50125 Florence, Italy
    Galleria del Costume - Palazzo Pitti FirenzeThe first state-operated museum dedicated entirely to study and preservation of costumes, accessories, and fabrics, the Costume Gallery was created in 1983 under the direction of Kirsten Aschengreen Piacenti.Its prestigious headquarters is the ...
  • Visit to Museums and Foundations: Restoration laboratory of tapestries and rugs - Opificio delle Pietre Dure
    Installed on the guard walk of Palazzo Vecchio, inside the Sala delle Bandiere and inaugurated in 1986, the laboratory, like the Opificio from which it depends, is a center for excellence in restoration. In this case, the experts’ “patients” are tapestries and rugs; it was here that the magnificent tapestries that grace the Salone de’ Dugento were restored. Visit duration from 10 to 11 a.m.

    Guided and free visit
    Reservations required - tel. + 390 055 23 40 742; fax + 30 055 24 41 45
    prenotazioni@cscsigma.it
    Not accessible for the disabled.
    Precious Stone Workshop
    Via degli Alfani, 68, 50121 Firenze, Italia
    Precious Stone WorkshopThis museum was established at the end of the nineteenth century in the warehouses of the semiprecious stone workshops founded by the Medici in 1588. A chronologically arrange exhibit that takes us through three centuries features examples of “Floren...