Address

Via Ricasoli 58-60, 50122 Firenze

How to get there

Airplane: To Florence Amerigo Vespucci airport, by shuttle bus VOLA IN BUS to the station of Santa Maria Novella.

Car: To the station car park of Santa Maria Novella.

Train: To the station of Santa Maria Novella.

Train: Bus service from Santa Maria Novella Station, bus 1, 17.

Footpath: From the station about 10 minutes through the town centre.

Contacts

Phone: +39 0552388609

Fax: +39 055 2388764

Email: GalleriaAccademia@polomuseale.firenze.it, Galleriaaccademia.conservatoriocherubini@polomuseale.firenze.it

Disabled persons

Fully accessible.

GALLERIA DELL'ACCADEMIA
Entrance and ticket office accessible from no.60 (glass doors and flat pavement without steps). The room of the Colosso, the museum of Musical Instruments, the Prigioni gallery, the Bartolini room/plaster gallery are all fully accessible (access to the latter via a slightly steep ramp). The Giotto and 1300's rooms, and the bookshop, are all accessible.
Before the stairs to the upper floor (late 1300's and icons), there is a disabled toilet on the right, with a large lift in front of it which goes to the upper floor.
To visit the upper rooms (late 1300's, up to Lorenzo Monaco) there are two further stairlifts. The first measures approx. 68/70 x 70cm – maximum carrying capacity 150kg. The second, for a second small flight of stairs further along, was recently installed (2009) and measures approx. 70/75 x 80cm – maximum carrying capacity 225kg. All stairlifts have been declared fully functional (at least currently) – but please bear in mind that they may occasionally be out of order.

Education Department

Tel: +39 055284272
On request, the Office provides educational assistance to schools in the Province of Florence, Prato and Pistoia: it conducts specific programmes, arranges workshops and itineraries in the Museums of the Special Superintendency for the State Museums of Florence.
Cost: workshops free of charge; Museum lessons, € 3.00 per student.

Audio guide

Available in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish and Japanese.
Cost: individual € 5,50; double € 8,00.

Shop

There are two museum shops, one at the entrance and another at the exit of the museum.