This is a small museum, set up in Dante's house (which is entirely unremarkable in itself), containing loosely relevant information about Florence and its inhabitants during most of Dante's life. Information about Dante himself is sparse and carefully hidden among the extensive dissertations about mostly irrelevant context - interesting tidbits if you are already an expert on Dante, but mostly... More

I really wanted to like the place. It was OK. The coolest thing (just about) was the profile of Dante in one of the bricks outside the house. Firs of all, they aren't even sure Dante lived in this house. The stuff there is not original. There are pictures of things - sort of weird. There is a room dedicated... More

It's possible to learn something about medieval Florence but there's not much about Dante himself and the house is all reconstruction. Much space is wasted on a big battle model, and other people's ideas of what his poetic concept looked like. In short, it's not 'real', and while it isn't the most expensive museum in town, you'd do better to... More

The historic house of Dante was in the neighborhood, but in the eighteen century it was decided to buy that area, who happened to be for sale, raze all the later building, and rebuild almost entirely some middle-age-looking building as a tribute to the great man. they run some second rate art gallery in the premises, and in the tower... More

This was better than I expected, it had alot of historical interest giving good detail on the city before the Medicis More

We went to Dante's House whilst we were in Florence as we thought this might be a nice, quaint complement to the big art museums in the city. Unfortunately, this was a real disappointment. There are only a few rooms to look around, the rooms, the artworks, the labelling - it was all very amateur. It was a great chance... More