As you probably know, December 8 is bank holiday in Italy because it’s the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and the day in which, traditionally, the Christmas season starts. This also means that a lot of tourist are going to arrive in Tuscany and we don’t want them to feel annoyed if they were planning to visit a museum and in the end they find it closed 
If you are in Florence during the Immacolata’s week end, the Florence Museum Card would be a great idea to stroll around the city exploiting the public transportation and visit a great amount of museums! Here’s those galleries and shows that are open on December 8:
- Palazzo Vecchio Museum,
- Uffizi Gallery,
- Accademia Gallery,
- Pitti Circuit (the Palatine Gallery, the Gallery of Modern Art Giardino di Boboli, Boboli Gardens, Argenti Museum, Porcelain Museum, the Costume Gallery),
- Medici Riccardi Palace,
- Brancacci Chapel,
- Museum of the Medici Chapels,
- Museum of Palazzo Davanzati,
- Archaeological National Museum,
- Bargello National Museum,
- Museum of San Marco,
- ‘Cenacolo’ of Andrea del Sarto,
- ‘Cenacolo’ of St. Apollonia,
- Cloister of the Scalzo,
- ‘Cenacolo’ of Fuligno,
- Strozzi Palace,
- Galileo Museum,
- Alinari National Museum of Photography,
- Synagogue and Jewish Museum,
- Bigallo Museum,
- Archaeological Civic Area and Museum of Fiesole,
- Bandini Museum,
- Horne Museum,
- Medici Villa of Petraia,
- Garden of Medici Villa of Castello,
- Villa Corsini at Castello,
- Medici Villa of Poggio a Caiano,
- Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi,
- Anthropology and Ethnology Museum,
- Geology and Paleontology Museum,
- Mineralogy and Lithology Museum,
- Zoology Museum “La Specola”.
You can find up-to-date hours of operation on the Firenze Card website. All you have to do is choose the period of your visit and the system will show you all the museums’ timetables and openings during the Immacolata week-end. And Merry Christmas from Tuscany 
