After the nineteenth-century reorganizations and acquisitions, it became the popular Michelangelo museum, visited by millions of tourists for the presence of the famous David. However, it cannot be forgotten that alongside Michelangelo‘s statues, the Gallery preserves an important collection of works documenting the history of the Florentine artistic school from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century.
The Museum of Musical Instruments is part of a single museum route with the Accademia Gallery to which, following an agreement concluded in 1996 between the Ministry of Public Education and the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities, it was entrusted on loan.
The exhibition consists of about four hundred European and non-European instruments from the 17th to the 20th century, coming from various collections, including those of Cosimo and Ferdinando de’ Medici, the Lorena, Ferdinando Casamorata, and Alessandro Kraus, along with numerous donations, especially from Victor-Charles Mahillon (1841-1924), a wind instrument maker and director of the Museum of Musical Instruments of Brussels, and Countess Editta Rucellai, as well as from many musicians.
Information about Accademia Gallery and Museum of Musical Instruments
Via Ricasoli, 58-60 50122 Florence
