Audioguide of the Museum

Accompany your visit to the Opificio Museum by listening to the audio guides

Consulta le audioguide

Introduction
1 – SECTION 1 – The first grand dukes and the semiprecious stones
2 – The Dying Alexander’s head
3 – Portrait of Cosimo I de’ Medici
4 – Two panels with birds on a branch
5 – Panels with flower pots
6 – Table with parrot
7 – SECTION II – The Chapel of the Princes
8 – Head of Cosimo I
9 – Panel with Elijah and the Angel
10 – Two panels with Tuscan landscapes
11 – Panel with laurel and olive wreath
12 – SECTION III – Hard stone flowers
13 – SECTION IV – The last Medici
14 – Bedroom stoup
15 – Panel with the allegory of Fame
16 – Table cabinet with landscapes
17 – Cabinet with naturalistic mosaics
18 – SECTION V – The hard stones workshop
19 – Glyptic Workbench
20 – Bench for the cutting of Florentine mosaics
21 – Realization steps of a Florentine mosaic
22 – The museum of the Opificio in the mid twentieth century: the revival of an ancient tradition
23 – SECTION VI – The Lorraine period
24 – Table with a wreath of roses and shells
25 – Giuseppe Zocchi, Allegory of Air and Water
26 – The Arts
27 – Porphyry tabletop with musical instrument and wreath
28 – Two Roman landscapes
29 – SECTION VII – Painting on stone
30 – SECTION VII – Scagliola
31 – SECTION VIII – The Opificio in the Post-Unification Period
32 – Room 1 – Table with flowers, fruit, birds and racemes
33 – Room 1 – Statue portraying Cimabue, by Paolo Ricci
34 – Statue portraying Dante, by Paolo Ricci
35 – Room 2 – Jardinière
36 – Sala 2 – Frames with flowers
37 – Sala 2 – Four samples of wall panels
38 – Sala 2 – Tabletops
39 – Sala 3 – Liberated Italy
40 – Sala 3 – Vase with flowers and animals