Casa Martelli, a fascinating treasure chest that still contains important, little-known works, reveals to the public the country rooms on the ground floor, the elegant staircase, the magnificent art gallery with the rooms of the noble floor, the yellow and red halls, the chapel, the ballroom.

Thanks to the State's purchase of the Coat of Arms that Donatello made for Roberto Martelli, chosen by a committee of experts for the resolution of the Bardini Legacy, in 1998 it led to the donation of Casa Martelli, and its related collection.

Belonging for centuries to the noble and ancient family, the palace initially passed into the ownership of the Florentine Curia, to which Francesca Martelli had left it at her death in 1986, and subsequently became the property of the Italian State. Casa Martelli thus becomes a "jewel" in the already extensive Florentine museum offer: a house-museum, not the result of a posthumous reconstruction, but derived from the centuries-old stratification of the life of one of the oldest Florentine families.