Visiting Florence don't forget to visit the MUSEO DEI RAGAZZI.
It receives visitors from 3 years old, in order to make discover to the smallest,
the art without getting bored (also the parents).
The plan of the Museo dei ragazzi in 1998 for initiative of the town hall of Florence with the scope of beginning new activities in the museums, situated inside three prestigious historical museums: Palazzo Vecchio, Museum of the history of science, and Stibbert Museum and giving particular attention to young people,schools and families.
The Museum takes advantage of the scientific advising of students and expert
technicians in the various subjects chosen by the museum (history, history of
art, custumes, science, architecture, optic etc.).The activities are carried
out from entertainers and graduated actors, graduating young people,they are
subordinates to a specific formation, on various arguments and also on the modalities
of communication with the public.
The most part of the activities is carried out inside of Palazzo Vecchio, where
you can find the call center and the intelligence agency for the public and
also for the programs of the others two museums that join the Association.
Information and reservations: Museo dei Ragazzi Association Tel. 055.27.68.224 or 055.27.68.558 (From 9.00am to 7.00pm, from Monday to Friday).
INFORMATION ABOUT THE THREE MUSEUMS THAT JOIN TO THE INITIATIVE:
Thought for the small visitors, didactic activities and games inside the historical museum.
Il Museo dei Ragazzi is dedicated to the children from three years old, the adolescents and the families. Inside Palazzo Vecchio five laboratories and interactives ateliers have been prepared, here you can construct dispositives, simulate situations, play, make experiments, with a group of young people and prepared entertainers. The laboratories are carried out during the weekdays and are reserved for the schools. The ateliers, instead, are opened on Saturday and Sunday and are thought for groups of children and adults. Here the five laboratories-atelier in the detail:
.Architectures of Palace: experiences and devices in order to discover the
secrets of the architecture.
.The dress and the body: the discovery of the conception of the body in the
VI century through the clothing of the granducale family.
.The magic of the lenses dedicated to Galileo and the invention of the telescope.
.Horror Vacui?, dedicated to Torricelli and the experiences in the vacuum.
.The room of games of Bia and Garcia, the space for smaller children. Here in
addition to the Theatre of the Shadows and to the activity of construction of
fantastic objects, games, disguises, will be possible to participate at the
show "Lapo and the Duca".
In the laboratories every argument is faced in a rational and scientific way, but at the same time it's simple and winning. Their key element is the interactivity: the children can maneuver architectonic pieces, dress up like small dukes, play with lenses or experiment in the vacuum. Therefore in every laboratory the children take an active part of the "game".
P.zza della Signoria
Tel.055 2768465
Weekdays: 9am-7pm
Thursday: 9am-2pm
Holidays: 9am-7pm
Entrance: entire € 6,00 reduced for young-old people € 4,50
reduced for minor-schools € 2,00
families (4 people) € 14,00
families (5 people) € 16,00
The Stibbert Museum conserve one of the more important collections of the world
of customs, arms and western, Muslims and Japanese armors.
It is possible to carry out the visit at the Museum through the guide of two
great historical personages like “Solimano il Magnifico” and “Giovanni
dalle Bande Nere”, in order to make more pleasant the visit also for the
children.
Via F. Stibbert 26
Tel. 055 475520
Fax 055 486049
Hours: Monday - Wendsday 10am-2pm
Friday - Sunday 10am-6pm
closed on Thursday
Ticket: entire € 5.00
reduced € 2.00
The Museum of Science is the most important Italian historical-scientific museum, it exposes collections of mediceo lorenesi instruments, between which enunciate those of Galileo. Also here the fun for the smallest is guaranteed.
SUMMER (1th June - 30th Setptember)
Monday, Wendsday, Thursday and Friday 9.30am - 5.00pm
Tuesday and Saturday 9.30am - 1.00pm
Evening hours: the last Thursday of June and August
the first Thursday of July and September 8.00pm - 11.00pm
Closed on Sunday 2 and 24 June, 15 August
WINTER (1th October - 31th May)
Monday, Wendsday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 9.30am - 5.00pm
Tuesday 9.30am - 1.00pm
Evening hours: the second Sunday of the month 10.00pm - 11.00pm
Closed on Sunday, 1 November, 8, 25 and 26 dicember, 1 and 6 January, Easter, Monday of the Angel, 25 April, 1 May
Nothing better, of involving parents and kids in the theater space “Civiltà
del Rinascimento a Firenze”, that has place in some of the Mezzanino locals
of the V century and offers a series of show initiatives. The visitor-spectators-actors
of these laboratories-atelier will be able to live again the situations and
to meet the personages of a time, in particular Cosimo de'Medici and the wife
Eleonora da Toledo with their court, also in the moments and in the places in
which they carried out their private life.
For the smallest, from the 3 years old, remains always valid the initiative
of the Room of History of Bia and Garcia - theater space dedicated to the two
of the sons of Cosimo de' Medici and Eleonora da Toledo. In this atmosphere
they will be able to not only observe the objects that already on their own
tell about the life of the past but, above all, to listen to the stories that
will stimulate they imagination thanks to the magical atmosphere created from
the Theatre of the Shadows. They will be able therefore to listen to the narrations
that take cue from real facts or personages jumped out from paintings, like
"The history of the wonderful scale of the Duke Gualtieri" and the
new " Challenge of the wizards of the light and the shadow "and"
the history of the theft in the Studiolo of Francesco I".
Painting lessons for children, teenagers and adults may be booked in one workshop located in the center of Florence.