There are 5 exhibitions on in Florence worth the trip. I checked the dates, the venues and the opening hours one by one, on the museums’ own pages.
Last checked: 17 October 2026
7 May to 25 October 2026
One hundred fifty photographs from the Foto Locchi archive cover three changing decades of the city: from postwar reconstruction through the boom years to the years of political unrest. A direct look at Florentine squares from fifty years ago.
18 June to 31 December 2026
The evening gowns of Ferdinando Sarmi, the Florentine tailor who dressed Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe and the Duchess of Windsor in 1950s-60s New York, come out of storage with period accessories. A niche show of pieces normally kept hidden.
25 September 2026 to 24 January 2027
The fragment in sculpture, from Egypt, the Etruscans and Rome to today, by way of Giovanni Pisano, Michelangelo and Rodin, and of Louise Bourgeois, Robert Gober and Danh Vo. The 1966 Florence flood is there too, among the things that break a statue.
17 October 2026 to 28 February 2027
Twenty paintings, some never shown before, by the American painter Danielle McKinney, born in Alabama in 1981, who came to painting from photography. Her women alone in interiors hang beside works from the Alberto Della Ragione collection.
26 September 2026 to 7 March 2027
About twenty-five paintings by the Romanian painter Victor Man in the ground-floor rooms of the former Leopoldine, on piazza Santa Maria Novella. The route follows the themes he keeps returning to: motherhood, portrait and self-portrait, still life, the female figure.
One exhibition that has not opened yet, but whose dates are already announced.
10 November 2026 to 24 January 2027
The first solo show at an Italian institution for the Polish photographer Joanna Piotrowska, with new works on intimacy and control, protection and oppression. It is in the Project Space, free to enter, while “Broken” fills the piano nobile.
It is always these 4, and I check them one by one. When a venue has nothing on I say so, with the date I checked: it is something you would otherwise have to look up museum by museum.
Dates and prices change, and this page may not reflect the latest updates: before you travel, always check the museum’s own page, linked under each exhibition, which is the most reliable source.