Stibbert Museum Tours and Tickets

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• Visit to Frederick Stibbert's Villa and Park in Florence

Tickets for the Stibbert Museum cost €10 for adults and €7 for seniors over 65 and children aged 4–12; kids aged 3 and under enter for free. Visitors with disabilities pay €2, and a companion visits for free. If you’d like to book a guided visit, contact the museum in advance and expect to pay €150 for your group.

If you’re coming from the Florence Duomo (Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore), the Stibbert Museum is a 40-minute walk or a 15-minute taxi ride away. To get there by public transportation, ride the T1 tram from the Valfonda tram stop at Santa Maria Novella station and disembark at the Muratori stop—the Stibbert Museum is a 15-minute walk away.

The Stibbert Museum is open from Monday to Wednesday from 10am to 2pm, and Friday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm. The last entry is one hour before closing. It’s closed on Thursdays and several holidays. From November to April, all visits are guided by a docent, which start every half hour; you can browse independently during the rest of the year.

Yes, guided tours of the Stibbert Museum are a great way to get context about the villa’s many treasures beyond their QR code descriptions. Your ticket automatically includes a guided group tour with museum staff if you visit from November to April, or you can book a private skip-the-line tour any time throughout the year.

See wealthy antiques dealer Frederick Stibbert’s personal collection of 50,000 objects, arranged in dozens of lavishly decorated rooms throughout his house-museum. Centuries-old armor from Japan and the Middle East is the highlight, though Napoleonic costumes, Renaissance paintings, and the surrounding garden with sculptures and temples are also well worth seeing.