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11 stories across Florence, Old Masters, Renaissance, and Sculpture. Latest: Uffizi Opens Three New Rooms Dedicated to Andrea del Sarto and Fra Bartolomeo.
On July 25, 2026, the Uffizi Galleries announced the opening of three new rooms on the second floor dedicated to Andrea del Sarto, Fra Bartolomeo, and their circle of painters active in Florence in the first two decades of the 16th century.
The Uffizi Galleries has completed a new permanent installation of Sandro Botticelli’s Venus and Primavera, now displayed facing each other in airtight cases within entirely redesigned rooms.
The Uffizi Galleries has completed the removal of a 60-meter crane weighing 518 quintals from the square opposite the museum in Florence.
The Uffizi Galleries will open all spaces of the complex during ordinary hours on June 1, 2025, including the Uffizi Gallery, Palazzo Pitti and Boboli Gardens. On June 2, 2025, only the Uffizi Gallery will operate during ordinary hours, with the Vasari Corridor closed to visitors.
The Uffizi Galleries announced the death of Detlef Heikamp, a scholar of Mannerist sculpture and Medicean collecting. Heikamp, who collected works himself, donated many pieces from his own holdings to the museum.
Uffizi Galleries has returned Raphael's Madonna del Baldacchino to the Saturn Room of the Palatine Gallery at Pitti Palace in Florence, where the work has hung since the gallery opened to the public in 1828.
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The Uffizi Galleries has restored the Niobe Hall on the second floor with 90 energy-efficient lamps of high color rendering.
The Uffizi Galleries has placed the Adam and Eve panels by Lucas Cranach the Elder at the center of its new Flemish Masters rooms on the second floor. The German painter created more than 50 versions of the subject with his collaborators.
The Uffizi Galleries has reopened the Royal Apartments at Palazzo Pitti following a five-year closure and nine months of restoration.
The Uffizi Galleries has reinstalled fifty ancient Greco-Roman busts in the Ponte Vecchio section of the Vasari Corridor. The portraits depict figures including Cicero, emperors Augustus and Antoninus Pius, and empresses Faustina and Sabina.
The Uffizi Galleries has reopened the Stanzino delle Matematiche after restoration of its floor, walls and bronzes in the niches, along with installation of a new lighting system.
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