Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Florence)

Coordinates: 43°46′20.4″N 11°15′22.40″E / 43.772333°N 11.2562222°E / 43.772333; 11.2562222

Museo dell'Opera del Duomo

The museum, seen from the Piazza del Duomo
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Location	Piazza del Duomo 9, Florence, Italy

The Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Museum of the Works of the Cathedral) in Florence, Italy is a museum containing many of the original works of art created for the Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, the cathedral (Duomo) of Florence.^[1] As of August 2013, the director of the museum is Fr. Timothy Verdon, an American.^[2]

The museum is located just east of the Duomo, near its apse. It opened in 1891, and now houses what has been called "one of the world's most important collections of sculpture."^[3]

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The Deposition, 1547–1555, by Michelangelo, is featured in the museum

Among the museum's holdings are Lorenzo Ghiberti's doors for the Baptistery of Florence Cathedral called the Gates of Paradise, the cantorias, or singing-galleries, designed for the cathedral by Luca della Robbia and Donatello, Donatello's Penitent Magdalene.

The collection also includes The Deposition, a pietà sculpted by Michelangelo which he intended for his own tomb.

Although it was reported on August 6, 2013, that a tourist had accidentally snapped a finger off of a 14th-century statue of the Virgin Mary by Giovanni d'Ambrogio, the finger was from a later repair and not part of the original work.^[4]

The logo of in the floor of the cathedral

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