The Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art is the first Italian institution created from the beginning to collect, document and promote the most advanced artistic research.
The Centre, opened to the public in 1988, has produced and exhibited more than two hundred and fifty exhibitions and projects, organised special events and promoted educational initiatives for students and adults. It also has a collection of over a thousand works mapping artistic trends from the Sixties onwards.
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Opening days
From Thursday to Sunday
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Opening times
from 10.00 to 19.00
last entry at 18.30 -
Closing
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
- Web Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art
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Feature List
- Info line
- Wheelchair accessible
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Accessibility
The museum is wheelchair accessible.
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Info Reservation
Groups and schools
0574531924
[email protected]Indicate in the email name, surname, mobile phone, number of visitors, specify the Pecci Centre as the museum to be visited, the day and time of the visit chosen.
Reservation is required for Saturday and Sunday.Cafeteria from 10.00 to 21.30
Restaurant from 20.00 to 22.00
The Centre is located in a splendid structure, designed by rationalist architect Italo Gamberini and expanded in 2016 by Maurice Nio, it is a city within a city: inside it there are 3,000 square metres of exhibition halls, an archive, the 60,000 volumes of the specialised CID/visual arts library, the auditorium-cinema, a bookshop, a restaurant, a bistro and an open-air theatre.
Services
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Visits
for individuals on the calendar
available in Italian -
Visits
for groups and schools by reservation
available in Italian, English
[email protected]
Additional Info
TICKETS
_FULL € 10.00
_REDUCED € 7.00
under 26, over 65 years old, Groups (min 12 people) with reservation, Students, Members of UniCoop Firenze, FAI and Touring Club members, Edumusei card owners, Trenitalia subscribers (Toscana Regional annual, monthly, weekly), Trenitalia travellers (upon presentation of a regional one-way ticket), CAP subscrivers, holders of Mobile or Multipla card , CAP workers and CAP retirees, Holders of tickets purchased at UCI cinemas and the Omnia Center (the reduction will be applied for cinema tickets presented within one month of the date of issue), Holders of the "Palazzo Grassi & Punta della Dogana Card" and those accompanying them (young, individual and dual), Holders of "Settembre Prato è Spettacolo" concert tickets (from August 28 till September 8, 2019), Owners "Tomàs Saraceno. Aria" ticket of the exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi - Florence, Owners "Fabbrica Europa"
_REDUCED € 5.00
University teachers or students of fine arts / architecture
_FREE
last Sunday of the month, under 6 years old, Members (+ 10% discount Bistrot and Bookshop), Friends of the Museo Pecci, Pratomusei card owners, Firenze card owners, Members of Castello di Rivoli - Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, MART - Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea of Trento and Rovereto, Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Members of participating museums are entitled to a 10% discount on the publications by the Centro Pecci, Visitors with disabilities and accompanying adults
Accredited journalists or holders of a valid press card, ICOM members (+ 10% discount catalogue and merchandising), Tourist guides during the exercise of their profession, For reasons of study and research, as certified by school or university institutions, academies, Italian and foreign research and cultural institutes; bodies connected to the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities; subjects making special applications for specific periods.
_FAMILY € 20.00
_PRATOMUSEI CARD
Pratomusei card is the new card created from the synergy between the four main museums of the city of Prato: Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Museo del Tessuto, Museo di Palazzo Pretorio, Musei Diocesani.
- individual card € 16.00
- family card (2 adults + 2 children up to 14 years old) € 28.00
Where
Viale della Repubblica 277, Prato
Transportation
By bus: from Florence Santa Maria Novella train Station: CAP and Lazzi routes to Prato
By train: Bologna-Florence line and Florence-Lucca-Viareggio line: Prato Centrale station. From the station it is possible to take a bus (LAM BLUE line), which stops in viale della repubblica about 200 metres from the museum.
By car: motorway A11 Firenze - Pisa, exit Prato est. Paying car parks are available all along viale della repubblica, or you can park in the free car park of the Unieuro-Il Globo shops, not far from the museum.
By bus: the CAP and Lazzi bus lines provide a connection service between Florence and Prato departing every 15 minutes from Santa Maria Novella station.
Visiting Rules
- Face masks strongly reccommended. Find out more
- The consumption of food and/or drinks in the common spaces and inside the exhibition areas is not permitted.
- The bookshop is open with access limited to two people at a time and there is an obligation to use gloves. Payment may be made using contactless cards and cash.
- The restaurant and bistrot are open.
- Please note that surveillance staff are also required to check and guarantee the physical distances are maintained, in addition to ensuring compliance with the rules set out above.
