Boboli Gardens reopens today, then Pitti Palace and Uffizi. Schmidt: "We welcome visitors again."

“Today, after two and a half months of closure, the Boboli Gardens can welcome visitors again. But this is only the first stage in our reopening program: tomorrow it will be the turn of the Pitti Palace, and on Thursday the corridors and rooms of the Gallery of Statues and Paintings will return to welcome their public,” announced the director of the Uffizi Galleries, Eike Schmidt.

The Medici park has been closed, like all cultural venues, since Nov. 5, 2020, and today, Jan. 19, the Boboli Gardens reopens to the public with all the planned antiCovid security measures. It will be open Monday through Friday (except the first and last Monday of the month) from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in January and February; from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in March. The Porcelain Museum will be closed during this first phase.

The Palatine Gallery in the Pitti Palace reopens on January 20 and will be accessible Tuesday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. It will be possible to visit the Gallery of Modern Art, the Treasury of the Grand Dukes and the Palatine Gallery, including the exhibition on the restoration of Raphael’s painting of Pope Leo X and Two Cardinals in the Sala delle Nicchie. The Museum of Fashion and Costume will be closed for set-up work.

From Jan. 21, the Uffizi Gallery will also reopen, Tuesday through Friday with hours from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. During this first phase, it will be possible to visit the forty rooms on the second floor, including the exhibition on the painting Experiment on a Bird Inserted in an Air Pump by Joseph Wright of Derby, on loan from the National Gallery in London (still through and including Friday). The archaeological exhibition Empresses, Matrons, Freedwomen. Faces and Secrets of Roman Women in the Sala Detti and Sala del Camino on the second floor of the Uffizi.

The museum headquarters also informs that the validity of annual “Passepartout” passes, including “Passepartout Family,” is extended by 77 days.

Boboli Gardens reopens today, then Pitti Palace and Uffizi. Schmidt: "We welcome visitors again."

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