First, Museum di Firenze Com'era which is a sort of 'history of Florence' museum. They have all sorts of maps and drawings and prints and paintings on display so you can see how the city changed over the centuries. They also had a neat model of how the Roman city probably looked along with some archeological artifacts.
Then I went to the Palazzo Nonfinito which houses the national anthropology and ethnology museum. It was set up in the 19th century and basically hasn't changed since then, so it was as much a museum about how Westerners viewed foreign cultures as it was about people from around the world. They had lots of skulls and mummies, as well a magic monkey head (sorry, the photo of that didn't come out). 
Then, I went to Casa Buonarroti, which was Michelangelo's house. It's more like a shrine to Michelangelo, filled with portraits of him by all sorts of artists, and lots of artists' copies of his sculptures. (No good pictures here.)I came home to rest and eat, and then set out for the afternoon. First was the History of Science Museum. Unfortunately half of the museum is closed for renovation, although that meant the ticket price was cheaper. It sounded like they had a really neat collection of globes, but I didn't get to see that. I did get to learn all about telescopes, though. They had on display Galileo's telescope which was really fancy (carved ivory!).
And finally I went to the Palazzo Medici-Rucellai to see the Medici chapel frescoes painted by Benozzo Gozzolo, which are pretty amazing, even after all the frescoes and chapels I've already seen this trip. There was a small exhibition in the palazzo of drawings by Renaissance masters which was nice, too. There's a courtyard and a little garden, but other than that there's not much else to see in the palace--most of it is now police headquarters or town hall or something like that.
From there I was out of things to do for the day, but it was so nice out for once (it's been awfully grey and drizzly this whole time) I thought it would be nice to walk in the sun and celebrate the relatively warm weather with gelato. Moments later, it started pouring. Literally out of the blue. I guess gelato is not what the sun gods wanted, although I thought it was good (panna cotta flavor!).
And finally, one more photo for my loyal readers today:
3 comments:
There must be treatment somewhere for people who take closeups of innocent animals' noses and then blow them up to disgusting detail to share with unsuspecting viewers. Perhaps there is some very questionable ingredient in that gelato you are ingesting that causes this behavior
too many museums. you crazy.
and craic is pronounced "crack"
I'm so glad you went to Firenze Com'era! And if you were at Casa Buonarroti, you must have passed right by my old house (#3 via Buonarroti, just two doors away)...oh Firenze, I miss it so.
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