The Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology in Florence, founded in 1869, preserves a vast collection of ethnological objects from Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, collected over five centuries.
The original nucleus originates from the Medici collections and, subsequently, from the eighteenth-century collections of Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Lorraine.
Let yourself be guided on this extraordinary journey around the world, where each object tells stories of distant peoples and millenary traditions.
Book your guide to the Florence museum now and live a unique experience that will make you travel across five continents without leaving the city!
Tour of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology: itinerary and collections
The guided tour lasts 2 hours and includes the most significant stops where you can admire unique collections:
- ethnographic collections: objects of all kinds produced by man in different eras starting from prehistoric human civilizations
- anthropological collections: skeletal remains of Homo sapiens
- primatological collections: remains of Primates and mummies
- wildlife collections: vertebrate bones
