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The Museo dell'Opera del Duomo holds the original sculptures and works of art made for Florence Cathedral, the Baptistery and Giotto's Campanile. Opened in 1891 and enlarged in 2015 into the former Teatro Nuovo, it shows Ghiberti's original Gates of Paradise, a full-size model of the cathedral's medieval façade, Donatello's Mary Magdalene and Michelangelo's Bandini Pietà.

The Salvatore Ferragamo Museum occupies the lower floors of Palazzo Spini Feroni, the medieval palace on Piazza Santa Trinita that is the fashion house's headquarters. Opened in 1995, it presents annual themed exhibitions drawn from the company archive, which holds shoes Salvatore Ferragamo made from 1927 until his death in 1960.

The Bargello is a national museum in the Palazzo del Bargello, a fortified palace begun in 1255 for the city's magistrates and later used as police headquarters and prison. Opened in 1865, it holds Renaissance sculpture by Donatello, Michelangelo, Cellini and Giambologna, along with ivories, enamels, majolica, bronzes and arms.

The Uffizi Gallery is an art museum in the U-shaped building that Giorgio Vasari began in 1560 as offices for Cosimo I de' Medici, between Piazza della Signoria and the Arno. Its rooms show painting from the 13th to the 20th century, including Botticelli's Birth of Venus, and ancient sculpture from the Medici collections.

The Medici Chapels are the burial chapels of the Medici family at the Basilica of San Lorenzo, a state museum since 1869. The visit leads from the crypt to the domed Chapel of the Princes, lined with coloured marble and hardstone inlay, and on to Michelangelo's New Sacristy of 1519–1534 with his figures of Night, Day, Dawn and Dusk.

Museo Galileo is a museum of the history of science in Palazzo Castellani, beside the Uffizi on the Arno, called the Institute and Museum of the History of Science until 2010. Its scientific instruments come from the Medici and Lorraine collections and include two telescopes made by Galileo, the lens of a third, globes, clocks and anatomical models.

Leonardo Interactive Museum is a private museum in Via dei Servi, between the Galleria dell'Accademia and the Cathedral, open for more than twenty years. It shows working full-size reconstructions of machines from Leonardo da Vinci's codices, such as a tank, a catapult, an aerial screw and an ornithopter, which visitors may operate themselves.

Museo de' Medici is a museum of the history of the Medici family, from Lorenzo the Magnificent to Anna Maria Luisa, the last of the dynasty. Since 2023 it occupies Brunelleschi's Rotunda, a centrally planned building begun in 1432 and left unfinished for five centuries, and rooms of the former monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli.

The Museo di San Marco occupies the Dominican convent of San Marco, rebuilt by Michelozzo for Cosimo de' Medici from 1437. It holds a large collection of works by Fra Angelico, including the frescoes he painted in 44 friars' cells and the Annunciation at the top of the stairs, as well as Michelozzo's library and the cells of Savonarola.

The Museo del Calcio is the museum of the Italian national football team, in a rebuilt farmhouse at the Italian Football Federation's training centre in Coverciano. Opened in 2000, it displays shirts, balls, medals, boots and cups from the national team's history since the 1920s, alongside a digital archive of photographs and films.