The Museum of Florence has surpassed the Colosseum, Pompeii, or the Vatican Museums as the most visited cultural venue for the first time in its history.

The venue received 1,721,637 admissions last year

The record, prepared by the specialized publication Giornale dell’Arte, indicated that the initiative of the Ministry of Culture to make museums free on a Sunday every month has increased the number of visits.

The first weekend in which this initiative was implemented was a record for the Uffizi. It had 32,912 visitors, reaching numbers not seen since 2019.

In addition, the exhibition contained the three most visited temporary exhibitions of the year in Italy, making it the most visited cultural venue. Those who set records wereGiuseppe Pinoni, Trees in Verse“;”The last seal“And in the palace of my house,”Leo X returns to Florence“.

Globally, these galleries place the Uffizi in third place, behind the National Gallery in Melbourne and MoMa in New York.

“We’re on an upward streak again,” the show’s director, Eck, noted. schmidt. The specialist highlighted the work of the entire Uffizi team.

Schmidt attributes the audience’s success to the “new 16th century rooms that opened last May; exhibitions ranging from classical antiquity to contemporary times and a cultural proposal also found on the web and social networks.”

Among the most visited museums in the world for its permanent exhibition, the gallery remains in the 20th place. The arrangement is headed by the Louvre, which has been visited by more than 2.8 million visitors.

Big Five

This year’s Uffizi record leaves the Colosseum Archaeological Park in second place as the most visited cultural space, with 1.6 million visitors. In 2020 he was the first, a record he has held for years.

The top five were completed by the Archaeological Park of Pompeii (1 million visits), as well as the Florentine Academic Gallery (446,000 tickets) and finally the Royal Palace of Caserta (346,468 tickets).