Accademia Gallery Informations

How to get there from the Florence centre?

The Accademia Gallery is a famous small museum in the city of Florence. It is Europe’s first art museum and drawing School, known for the famous sculptures by Michelangelo most importantly his Statue of David. The tour at Accademia Gallery would take around 1-2 hours, but still, if you want less crowd then you can set out early.

Naturally, a lot of people want to visit there. You can visit the Accademia Gallery from the Florence centre on foot, by bus or by taxi. If you want to have a walk to the Gallery from the Florence centre it would take you around 19 minutes, a taxi would take you 5 minutes and the bus would take you around 17 minutes. The Gallery is situated just beside the famous Uffizi Gallery and has housed tapestries, sculptures and precious art pieces of the most prominent artists like Michelangelo, Giambologna and Bartolini. The opening hour of Accademia Gallery is 8:15 AM to 7:15 PM and remains closed on Mondays and Saturdays.

The bookshop lends € 8.00f or an audio guide, though the Accademia Gallery tours do not have a dress code still it is recommended that the tourists dress modestly.
The tourists will have to struggle in the queue that leads to the gate of entrance, they are requested to read the signs that are posted and recognize their respective entrance queue in the Accademia Gallery tours.
Tourists are suggested to buy the Skip-the-Line ticket to get rid of the long queues, Surf the official website of the Accademia Gallery to check if there is any exhibition or any special occasion.

Get there By bus

Take the minibus number 6, 14 or 52 route anywhere from the historical Center.
Get off from the Piazza Di San Marco, The Accademia Gallery 140meters away (1min walk)
Buy Bus Ticket: You can buy the tickets from any 'Tabacchi' shop and it will cost euro 1.50 (90 Minutes) or you can buy the ticket on board from the driver.
Or simply send the message to 4880105 and type "ATAF" then you will get your digital ticket immediately as a text message.