Museums
By: The GoAbroad Team
Posted on: Italy, Where to Go and What to See
Florence is known for it's valuable treasure of marbles, frescos and oil paintings. It is well known to many as the capital of Italian Renaissance Art. Some of the popuar works include The Duomo, the Uffizi Gallery, the Bargello Museum and the Palazzo Pitti. Others are Museo Archeologico, San Marco and the Fra Angelico Museum.
In Rome, you will find a variety of museums that represents churches and castles. One of the oldest is the Vatican Museum which keeps the greatest collections of art and sculpture in the world. The Caitoline Museum, the Galleria Borghese, the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, the Villa Farnesina, the Etruscan Museum, and the Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale are a few among several world-famous galleries throughout the Italy.
Others include the Museum of the Souls of the Dead, the National Pasta Museum, and the Museum of Criminology.
In Sicily, several museums can be found in different regions such as the Regional Museum in Messina, the Marionette Museum in Palermo, the Aeolian Archaeological Museum in Lipari among others.
Milan have enough museums to satisfy a tourist's craving for the fine arts like the Museum of Ancient Art and Museo Poldi-Pezzoli. In the field of sciences, the Leonard da Vinci National Museum of Science and Technology is a favorite.
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