Metropolitan Sunday returns to Florence: free admission to museums for all residents

Sunday, April 7, Metropolitan Sunday returns to Florence, on the occasion of which all residents of the Metropolitan City of Florence will be able to visit the Florentine Civic Museums and Palazzo Medici Riccardi free of charge, and participate in the many scheduled tours and activities organized by the City of Florence, the Metropolitan City of Florence and MUS.E.

In fact, visits and activities aimed at young people and adults are scheduled, which will give the opportunity to discover the Florentine museums, their permanent collections and temporary exhibitions: Palazzo Vecchio, Santa Maria Novella, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Museo Stefano Bardini, Deportation Memorial, Museo Novecento, Cappella Brancacci in Santa Maria del Carmine and MAD - Murate Art District. Among these, visits led by the AMIR project mediators are also back on the program, to which is added the heritage walk Along the Walls, which aims to enhance the historic center World Heritage Site. Various activities are also planned for children and their families, such as the animated storytelling Per fare una città ci vuole un fiore and Vita di corte in Palazzo Vecchio, Intorno al Porcellino at Museo Bardini, Un nuovo canto per Orfeo in Palazzo Medici Riccardi and Stanze magiche at Museo Novecento.

The permanent collections are complemented by the rich program of ongoing temporary exhibitions. The exhibitions The Enchantment of Orpheus in the Art of All Times, from Titian to the Contemporary, which traverses the myth of the legendary storyteller through masterpieces of figurative art, and Illustrating Time, are on view at Palazzo Medici Riccardi. Roberto Innocenti, dedicated to one of Italy’s greatest illustrators.

At the Museo Novecento, on the other hand, the exhibitions Ritorni. From Modigliani to Morandi, featuring great masterpieces of 20th-century Italian art; Jannis Kounellis. The Room Sees. Drawings 1973-1990, focusing on the artist’s graphic work; André Butzer. Liebe, Glaube und Hoffnung (Love, Faith and Hope), the artist’s first institutional monograph organized in Italy.

At MAD - Murate Art District, on the other hand, is the sound installation Agora by artist Sadi, which aims to restore the voices of the great thinkers and politicians of the 20th century linked to the history of the complex.

All guided tours and activities are free and reservations are required. When booking, only one appointment can be reserved during the day for a maximum of 5 people.

For all info see https://musefirenze.it/domenica-metropolitana/

Pictured, staging of The Enchantment of Orpheus, Palazzo Medici Riccardi. Photo by Nicola Neri.

Metropolitan Sunday returns to Florence: free admission to museums for all residents

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