The Museum of Palazzo Pretorio is located in the heart of Prato, in a wonderful medieval palace built like a prison. It houses works by great artists such as Bernardo Daddi, Donatello, Filippo and Filippino Lippi, Alessandro Allori, Santi di Tito, and Lorenzo Bartolini, as well as excellent temporary exhibitions.
The Textile Museum expands over 3,000 square meters in what was once a textile factory. Today it is one of the most important examples of industrial architecture recovery in Tuscany. It hosts permanent and temporary exhibitions.
Among the Diocesan Museums, the main one is the Opera del Duomo Museum: in an evocative atmosphere of medieval origin, around a Romanesque cloister, the museum displays masterpieces by the masters of the Renaissance: Donatello, Michelozzo, Filippo Lippi, Paolo Uccello and Botticelli. The exhibition also includes sculptures and frescoes, tapestries and precious sacred gold; one section is dedicated to Prato's most revered relic (the Sacred Girdle).
The Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art, designed by rationalist architect Italo Gamberini, reopened in 2016 after the completion of a futuristic renovation by Chinese-Dutch architect Maurice Nio. Inside you can see a collection of more than 1,000 works mapping art trends from the 1960s to the present day: painting, sculpture, film and video, installations, works on paper, artist's books, photographs, graphic arts, applied arts and commissioned projects. It also hosts temporary exhibitions and events.
Museum of the fabrics in Prato
