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The World’s 100 Best Museums

Uffizi

Florence, Italy

  1. THE WORLD’S BEST MUSEUMS WORTH A JOURNEY · 2026 ✦ ✦ N° 42 2026
Uffizi

Gallery of Renaissance painting and sculpture in the offices Vasari designed for Cosimo I de' Medici in 1560. Works by Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael hang in rooms off long corridors lined with statues.

Highlights

  • Botticelli's Birth of Venus
  • Botticelli's Primavera
  • Sculpture-lined corridors

Good to know

  • Book ahead, ticket queues are long
  • Free first Sunday of the month
  • Queues even with timed tickets

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