Ferragamo Museum

Ferragamo Museum tickets, and who goes in free

You don’t need to book the Ferragamo Museum for a visit on your own: only guided tours have to be reserved. Our entry ticket costs €15, with a reduced option at €9.50, and covers the museum and its temporary exhibition. The list of people who go in free is long, starting with anyone under 18 or over 65.

Guided tours run in Italian, English, Spanish and French, booked by email at receptionmuseoferragamo@ferragamo.com or by phone on +39 055 3562846. The museum doesn’t publish their price, so ask when you book.

The Ferragamo Museum on the Firenze Card: entry included, nothing to book

With a Firenze Card you just walk in. Entry is included, and the Ferragamo isn’t on the list of places where cardholders must book a time, like the Uffizi or the Accademia. Each cardholder gets one visit.

A €15 entry won’t make the card pay for itself, though. The Firenze Card starts to pay off once you visit about four of the big paid museums, such as the Uffizi, the Accademia, Palazzo Vecchio and Pitti, so the Ferragamo is a good extra on a day of museums rather than the reason to buy one. If you’re under 18 or over 65, the card saves you nothing here, since you go in without a ticket anyway.

Neither the Uffizi passes nor the Duomo passes cover the museum. Our page on Firenze Card and Florence’s other passes sets them side by side.

Inside the Ferragamo Museum: the Salvatore Ferragamo 1898-1960 exhibition

What you walk into downstairs is Salvatore Ferragamo 1898-1960, an exhibition curated by Stefania Ricci that tells the founder’s life through his work, starting with the American years that made him the Shoemaker to the Stars.

The shoes carry the story. Look for the cork wedge, heels reinforced with metal and the invisible sandal, alongside a permanent room of original shoes from the 1920s and 1930s.

Keep your expectations in proportion: this is a small museum in the palace basement. The company archive holds about 10,000 models Ferragamo designed up to 1960, and only a small part of them is on show, so it’s a visit for people who love shoes and fashion. The exhibition has been extended to 14 February 2027, and the museum hasn’t said what comes after it.

Ferragamo Museum opening hours and wheelchair access

The museum’s own calendar is simpler than its exhibition’s: it opens every day of the year except three.

The museum notes that its hours can change. Ticket sellers give the last admission as an hour before closing, so plan to be inside by 18:30.

Getting round is easy. There’s a lift, and every section can be visited in a wheelchair except one room with three steps; there’s also a wardrobe for coats, an accessible toilet and free wifi. If you’re travelling with a dog, the museum points you to BauAdvisor, a dog-sitting service nearby.

Palazzo Spini Feroni, the Ferragamo palace on Piazza Santa Trinita

Above the museum’s basement rooms stands Palazzo Spini Feroni, a fortified palace from the 13th century. Salvatore Ferragamo bought it in 1938, and since then it has been the company’s headquarters and its main shop as well as the museum.

He had come a long way to get there. Ferragamo was born on 5 June 1898 in Bonito, a village in Campania, in southern Italy, and left for the United States in 1915. He came back to Italy in 1927, opened a workshop in Florence, and died in the city on 7 August 1960.

The museum came later, in May 1995, set up by his family. It grew out of a 1985 exhibition about him at Palazzo Strozzi and out of the company’s own archive, the source of the shoes you see downstairs.

Walking to the Ferragamo Museum from Santa Maria Novella station

The palace stands by the Arno at the Santa Trinita bridge, and from Santa Maria Novella, Florence’s main station, it’s a 10-minute walk. The museum entrance is at Piazza Santa Trinita 5/R; some guides give Via de’ Tornabuoni 2, which is the palace’s address, not the door you want.

By tram, the T1 stops at Alamanni Stazione and the T2 at Unità, and buses stop at Santa Maria Novella, Via Tornabuoni and Piazza della Repubblica. From Florence’s Vespucci airport, about 6 km away, the T2 tram takes you to Unità, five minutes on foot from the museum. Coming from Pisa, take the Pisa Mover and a train to Santa Maria Novella.