The San Marco Museum is located in the convent of the same name near the main stations of Florence .

The San Marco Museum occupies a large area of the Dominican convent of San Marco and preserves its atmosphere intact. Founded in 1436 and built on a project by the architect Michelozzo , the convent played an important role in the religious and cultural life of the city as the story of friar Gerolamo Savonarola also testifies.

The fame of the museum is mainly due to the paintings by Beato Angelico , one of the greatest painters of the Renaissance, who frescoed many rooms of the convent. Other paintings by Angelico, of various origins, were collected there in the twentieth century, therefore the museum offers an extraordinary documentation of the painter's activity. Also important are the sixteenth - century collections , with works by Fra Bartolomeo , and the section dedicated to finds from buildings in the historic center demolished in the nineteenth century .

In the Museum of San Marco other important works are exhibited such as the paintings by Frà Bartolomeo and Giovanni Antonio Sogliani, the Last Supper by Ghirlandaio, the Madonna and Child by Paolo Uccello and the terracottas by Della Robbia . The museum displays some architectural finds recovered during the nineteenth-century demolitions of the center of Florence and from the Michelozzo Library. The latter was the first "public" library of the Renaissance.