MUSEUM OF STIBBERT FLORENCE

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The Museum owes its existence to an extraordinary man, Frederick Stibbert (1838-1906), of an English father and Italian mother, born in Florence but educated in England. Dedic? he soon turned his attention to the collection for which he himself created a museum on the Montughi hill. At his death he leaves? the Museum to the city from Florence. The museum ? now managed by a Foundation, established by will? testamentary of Stibbert himself. Stibbert's project is articulated? During the years. Currently the whole collection? made up of over 36,000 inventory numbers (for about fifty thousand objects), most of which are on display, the result of the original nucleus left by Stibbert at his death but increased by various gifts and later purchases. EUROPEAN ARMORY It presents a large number of specimens of armor, weapons and firearms especially of the 16th-18th centuries, but there are also some fifteenth-century pieces, archaeological objects and examples of the nineteenth century. ISLAMIC ARMORY The museum exhibits the collection of Islamic weapons from the Near and Middle Eastern Muslims in two rooms. JAPANESE ARMERIA It is one of the collections that ranks among the most popular. large outside Japan itself. The collection has about 95 complete armor, 200 helmets, 285 short and long swords and weapons at auction, 880 tsuba (saber hand guards) as well as all high quality accessories. and invoice. COSTUMES The Stibbertian collection of costumes, visible with temporary rotations, differs from similar collections for some inspiring reasons: first of all, as for the rest of the Museum, it is not limited to European materials, but also in this case it extends to the neighbor, in the middle and in the Far East, displaying Indian clothes in the rooms that show armaments of these airplanes and Chinese, Japanese and Korean clothes in those intended for the Oriental collections.