Imposing palace with a contemporary pulse
The Palazzo Strozzi was founded in 2006 as an innovative cultural institution with a mission to bring quality international art to the people of Tuscany. Situated in the heart of Florence, the Palazzo Strozzi is home to the largest exhibition space in the city, with an original Renaissance courtyard that hosts installations, events and performances. With a program that mixes tradition with modernity, notable exhibitions have include those dedicated to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Botticelli and Filippino Lippi, Ai Weiwei, Marina Abramović and Paul Cézanne. The museum also holds a permanent display about the Palazzo Strozzi itself, a fortress-like exemplar of late-15th-century Renaissance architecture commissioned by the merchant Filippo Strozzi to outdo his Medici rivals.