Museo Novecento

Museo Novecento tickets: one €13 ticket for the collection and the exhibitions

The Museo Novecento sells a single ticket, and it gets you into everything: the collection of 20th-century Italian art and whichever temporary exhibitions are on, which have no separate price at the desk. We don’t sell tickets for the Novecento, but the museum’s own is easy to buy.

The full ticket has cost €13 since 1 February 2026. Guides written in 2024 and 2025 still give €9.50, the old price, and some ticket listings show “from €9”, which is the reduced ticket for 18 to 25-year-olds.

The city’s pages don’t say you have to book, but they recommend it, even for the free tickets. You book on the civic museums’ ticket site, bigliettimusei.comune.fi.it, by email to info@musefirenze.it or by phone on +39 055 0541450. Groups go up to 25 people, with a guide included.

The Firenze Card at the Museo Novecento, the only pass that covers it

If you’d rather not buy a ticket at all, the Firenze Card includes the Museo Novecento, with one visit, as at every museum on the card. Booking a time with the card costs nothing and is recommended, and at the door you show the card, physical or digital.

Here the card stands in for a €13 ticket, so it’s worth it when the Novecento is one of five or six paid museums on your list. With just the Uffizi and the Accademia besides, it costs you more than the tickets. Under-18s go in free anyway, so they don’t need it here.

The Firenze Card is the only pass that covers the Novecento. The Uffizi Passepartout leaves it out, as you’ll see in Firenze Card and Florence’s other passes.

Museo Novecento opening hours: every day but Thursday, 11:00 to 20:00

The Novecento keeps the same hours all year, with no summer or winter timetable. On Mondays, when almost all of Florence’s state museums are shut, it’s open; the day it closes is Thursday.

On the spring holidays of 2026, 25 April and 1 May, it kept its normal hours, but the city says nothing about Christmas, New Year or Easter, so for those days ring the museum on +39 055 286132.

The museum’s foundation, MUS.E, runs visits for people with visual, hearing or intellectual disabilities and for older visitors with dementia, booked by email at info@muse.comune.fi.it. The lift from the third to the fourth floor has been reported out of order, leaving the top floor to the stairs, so if stairs are a problem, check with the museum before you go.

Inside the Museo Novecento: the Della Ragione collection and the shows on now

The heart of the museum is the collection of the collector Alberto Della Ragione, which came to Florence in 1970, after the flood. It’s where you’ll find De Chirico, De Pisis, Severini, Morandi, Mafai, Guttuso and Casorati, and alongside it hangs the bequest of the painter Ottone Rosai.

That gift answered a call. On 15 November 1966, eleven days after the Arno flooded the city, the critic Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti asked artists and collectors to give their work to Florence, and more than 280 artists replied. Ragghianti didn’t live to see the result: the museum opened on 24 June 2014.

The temporary shows change several times a year, and the €13 ticket covers whatever is on. Right now there are shows by two contemporary artists: Victor Man, until 7 March, and Danielle Mckinney, whose Tra noi runs until 28 February. Guided visits in English cost €8, booked with MUS.E on +39 055 0541450, Monday to Saturday from 9:30 to 13:00 and 14:00 to 17:00, and on Sundays and public holidays from 9:30 to 12:30.

The Spedale delle Leopoldine, the Novecento’s building on Piazza Santa Maria Novella

Before it held paintings, the building looked after people. It was the hospital of San Paolo dei Convalescenti, for patients getting back on their feet, and some date its beginnings to St Francis of Assisi’s time in Florence, between 1211 and 1222.

Look up at the loggia as you arrive. It went up between 1489 and 1496, modelled on Brunelleschi’s loggia at the Ospedale degli Innocenti, and the medallions in its arches are by Andrea della Robbia. The bust of Ferdinando I de’ Medici on the facade came later, around 1594, by Pietro Francavilla.

The name came in 1780, when Grand Duke Peter Leopold moved the hospital to Santa Maria Nuova and opened a school for poor girls here, the Scuole Leopoldine. The building is still called the Spedale delle Leopoldine after him, and after the Second World War the city went on using it as a school.

Getting to the Museo Novecento on Piazza Santa Maria Novella

The museum is at Piazza Santa Maria Novella 10, on the square of the church of Santa Maria Novella, with its loggia facing the lawn. If you come into Florence by train at Santa Maria Novella station, you walk there and don’t need a bus.

From the Uffizi or the Duomo it’s a walk through the historic centre, so the Novecento fits easily into a day that starts or ends at the station.