Top 10 Museums in Italy
- Vatican Museums, Rome — Sistine Chapel, Raphael's Rooms, ancient sculptures. €17.
- Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence — Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael, Caravaggio. The Renaissance under one roof. €20–25.
- Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence — Michelangelo's David. €12.
- Galleria Borghese, Rome — Bernini's sculptures, Caravaggio, Raphael. In a villa in the park. €15. Reservation required.
- Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples — The finds from Pompeii and Herculaneum. The "Gabinetto Segreto" (erotic art from antiquity) is infamous. €15.
- Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice — Venetian painting from Bellini to Canaletto. €12.
- Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan — Mantegna, Caravaggio, Raphael. Milan's most important art museum. €15.
- Museo Egizio, Turin — The second most important Egyptian collection in the world (after Cairo). €15.
- Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice — Modern art on the Grand Canal: Picasso, Pollock, Ernst, Dalí. €16.
- MAXXI, Rome — Zaha Hadid's museum for contemporary art and architecture. The building is the artwork. €12.