The
Polo Museale Fiorentino is an institution
which administers the largest ensemble of art works
in Italy.
It includes twenty museums varying in importance
from the Uffizi Gallery to the Medici Villa of Cerreto
Guidi, from the Accademia Gallery to the Cenacolo of
Santa Apollonia. It employs over 900 persons (art
historians, administrative staff and warders, restorers,
photographers, librarians), is responsible for 250
thousand catalogued works of art, and receives over
5 million visitors each year.
The purpose of the Polo Museale is to
care for the immense artistic heritage preserved
in its museums, villas, historical gardens and conventual
buildings, that has been handed down from the glorious
past of the city of Florence and its territory; first
and foremost from the Medici collections, and later
added to by the Lorraine and Savoy rulers and finally
by acquisitions made by the State from ecclesiastical
and private collections.
Above all, our mission is to make known to the general
public our great patrimony of art and culture inherited
from the past so that it may serve as a stimulus
to future generations.
The Polo Museale of Florence is part of
the State administration of the Ministry of Cultural
Heritage. It is run by a Superintendent, who is also
a qualified art historian, in the person of Prof.Antonio
Paolucci.
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| Antonio Paolucci was born in Rimini in 1939. He was formerly Superintendent of the Veneto and Mantua, and Director of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure and the Restoration Laboratory of Florence.
From 1995 to 1996 Paolucci was Minister of Cultural Heritage. |
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