Bargello

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June 16th 2011
As a museum professional, I am always interested in how cultural institutions handle their visitors. This post concerns two very different experiences we had at the Uffizi and Bargello art galleries here in Florence. The Uffizi has many major art works on display in a medium-sized building. I mention the building size only because the museum crams hundreds of thousands of visitors into a fair ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more