Uffizi, it's a record: museums in the complex surpass 4 million visitors

The museums of the Uffizi Galleries complex exceed four million visitors for the first time: a result that includes the numbers recorded not only by the “Gallery of Statues and Paintings” (i.e., the historic Uffizi Palace), but also those of the Pitti Palace and Boboli Gardens. It was precisely Palazzo Pitti that marked the largest increases, with +25 percent compared to 2017: 700,000 visitors visited the Oltrarno museum this year. This was announced by director Eike Schmidt during a meeting at the Foreign Press Association in Rome.

Regarding Palazzo Pitti itself, the director stressed, “we have tried to kindle interest by organizing exhibitions and concerts there that are included in the ticket, enhancing its galleries, I am thinking of the museum of fashion and costume, reopening spaces that have been closed for decades. It was a necessary job, because the Pitti Palace is overflowing with treasures: not only its famous Raphael, but so much art from so many different countries and an almost infinite range of sculptures and precious objects.”

Image: the Western Corridor of the Uffizi Gallery.

Uffizi, it's a record: museums in the complex surpass 4 million visitors

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