Book Accademia Gallery Tickets & Tours 2021

If you’re looking to gain in-depth knowledge about the history and cultural significance of this landmark, your best bet would be to opt for a guided Accademia Gallery tour. You will be accompanied on the tour by a professional, multi-lingual guide who will enlighten you with interesting facts about the structure’s history, prominent art and artists’ influence.

Thousands of visitors who tour Florence visit the Accademia Gallery each year. If you’re looking for a way to avoid the long waiting lines, opt for Accademia Gallery skip the line tickets. These provide priority access to the landmark and help you bypass the long queues, along with giving you access to all the main museum halls.

Along with the Accademia Gallery, the biggest art museum in Florence is the Uffizi Gallery. Get your fill of art in the city by opting for a Uffizi and Accademia tour. These tickets not only give you priority access to both art galleries, but also includes the services of a professional, multi-lingual tour guide who will accompany you to both.

There’s plenty to see in the city of Florence and it might be a hassle to plan an itinerary to cover major landmarks. In this case, your best option would be to opt for a combo tour. With this ticket, you get a guided tour to both the Accademia and Uffizi Galleries, along with a walking tour of popular attractions like the Florence Duomo.

When you enter into the Accademia Gallery, you’ll be greeted with the Hall of The Colossus. The prime attraction in this hall is Giambologna’s magnificent sculpture, ‘Rape of the Sabines’. Completely made from a single block of marble, the sculpture depicts three figures, tightly-wrapped together in a serpentine movement. Surrounding this sculpture is artwork by the likes of Perugino and Botticelli.

This museum hall is named so after the four ‘Slaves’ housed here -- large nude sculptures created by Michelangelo, namely: Awakening Slave, Atlas, Bearded Slave and Young Slave. This room was initially built to host classic paintings and then became an homage to Michelangelo’s unfinished sculptures; they were first commissioned to be a part of the St. Peter’s Basilica, but due to financial shortage, remained in Florence. 

The Tribune’s reputation precedes it: home to Michelangelo’s ‘David’, one of the most famous sculptures to have ever been created, this museum hall is one of the top-visited rooms at the Accademia. The sculpture, towering at about 17 feet, was completed back in 1504 and depicts strength, beauty and a time period of political turmoil in Florence. Other artwork surrounded David is by Allori and Bronzino. 

This museum hall is prominently dedicated to the life’s work of one of the most brilliant artists of his time, Lorenzo Bartolini. It was in 1784 when Peter Leopold, the then Duke of Tuscany, converted a hospital into a museum for students of the adjoining academy, giving them the opportunity to study the evolution and impact of Renaissance and Florentine art.

The Florentine Gothic sections cover three primary fields of art: the first is dedicated to ancient Gothic art from the 13th and 14th Centuries, with the most famous one being ‘Tree of Life’ by Bonaguida. The second houses artwork by loyal followers of Giotto, like Daddi and Gaddi. The final room, the Orcagna, is dedicated to work by four brothers: Andrea and Jacopo di Cione, Nardo and Matteo.

Explore a world of rhythm and harmony from the Medici days at the Museum of Musical Instruments. Playing host to the Grand Ducal Collection, the hall has about 50 ancient instruments on display. One can identify a variety of wind, string and harpsichord instruments here, including perhaps the original of the piano, that were used in the day-to-day lives of the Medici family.  

This museum hall is a great introduction to art before the Renaissance era. It is home to a stunning collection of late Gothic art during the Florentine era, primarily from the 14th Century. The most prominent piece of art here is the heartbreaking ‘Massacre of the Innocents’ by Jacopo di Cione. Other noteworthy pieces here are by Don Silvestro, del Biondo and Lorenzo Monaco.