The Accademia Gallery is one of the best known museums in the world. The worldwide fame is due to the Michelangelo’s David, the most famous sculpture in the world, set from 1882 in the Tribune, designed by architect Emilio De Fabris to host it. The Gallery of the Prisoners hosts other masterpieces by Michelangelo Buonarroti: the four "Prisoners" designed for the tomb of Pope Julius II, the sculpture depicting the evangelist Matthew and the so called Pietà di Palestrina.
The museum offers also a relevant collection of Italian painting from the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth century, with masterpieces by Giotto, Bernardo and Taddeo Gaddi, Andrea Orcagna, Lorenzo Monaco, Paolo Uccello, Sandro Botticelli, Filippino Lippi, Fra’ Bartolomeo, Andrea del Sarto, Pontormo.
The Gipsoteca displays the collection of plasters casts by the Nineteenth century sculptors Lorenzo Bartolini and Luigi Pampaloni, together with some paintings of masters who have studied or taught at the Academy of Fine Arts. The Museum of Musical Instruments hosts the collection of the Conservatory "Luigi Cherubini" in Florence.
