The private passageway built by the Medici dynasty cost €11m to restore

The Miami-based designer and NFT platform founder have long championed digital artists, but they still have a love of the great painters

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

Simone Verde cannot reduce visitor numbers, so he means to spread them out over new delights

Sara Funaro, a local councillor with the centre-left Democratic Party, reportedly took more than 60% of the vote

Cultural figures voice concern about culture ministry’s appointments to run institutions including Florence’s Uffizi Galleries and Milan’s Pinacoteca di Brera

The gallery—and the other big London museums—should be sending their vast collections around the country instead of hiding them in basements

The use of a computerised mascot of the Renaissance figure to promote Italian culture has been described as “humiliating” and “grotesque”

As the Italian museum responds to rising energy bills, culture minister says institutions’ entrance charge increases are justified

Uffizi's plan to show the painting at Vinitaly has been described as “absurd” and “unacceptable”

Culture minister Gennaro Sangiuliano criticises museum for not opening on the Monday before All Saints Day but director Eike Schmidt says government must step in to find "reinforcements"

The exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art features more than 45 works from the Florentine museum

The actions of Just Stop Oil and other groups might seem extreme—but their demands are anything but

Show of works by 48 artists, from Bernini to Chagall, is first in a five-year programme worth €6m to the Florence museum

Planned for completion in 2030, the revamp will include redeveloping the neoclassical Pagliere building for temporary exhibitions and storage

Officials at the Gallerie degli Uffizi in Florence say that the 15th-century painting was not damaged thanks to protective glass cover

Move follows €240,000 sale of NFT of Michelangelo work, with Uffizi taking a share of the profits

Former Uffizi gallery director calls for cultural sanctions against Russia saying it "would be a huge slap in the face [for] the regime"

Replicas of works from four institutions, including the Uffizi, will be sold as NFTs by Unit London gallery

A London panel has assembled the largest cache of evidence on the concentration camps in Xinjiang, but museums will not say if they have examined it

The Uffizi and Galleria dell’Accademia are among those finding ways to prevent re-sellers from inflating ticket prices

The new initiative also involves a team of museum guards tasked with responding to tiny tots' niggling queries

Uffizi Galleries in Florence among major lenders to show marking 200 years since his death

Work on the 760m-long Renaissance passageway, which has been closed for safety since 2016, will be completed in May next year

Florence museum unveiled new exhibition space and recent acquisitions

Florence museum director Eike Schmidt will discuss the fate of museums in the wake of Covid-19 on the audio app following successes on Facebook and TikTok

Arno Widmann wrote that the 13th-century Italian author, best known for the Divine Comedy, was antiquated and difficult to understand

The Uffizi Diffusi project aims to "scatter" works from the Florence museum's collection around overlooked sites across Tuscany on short term loans

Mixed-media montage by UK artist Endless was donated to the Florence museum

Weekly video series “Uffizi da mangiare” invites Florentine chefs to present recipes inspired by the Italian museum's collection