What to bring to the Vasari Corridor

Bags

Anything large goes to the cloakroom, and the rule is enforced at the security check rather than argued about afterwards. Umbrellas count. Some products go further and exclude food, drink and plastic bottles outright, so read the exclusions on the option you book instead of assuming a water bottle will be fine. A small bag you can carry through and forget about is the whole trick.

ID, not a passport

You do not need a passport to visit. Photo ID may be asked for where a ticket is a reduced or free-entitlement type, or where a name is printed on a reserved ticket, so carry something and lose no sleep over which document it is. This is one of the most-searched questions about the Uffizi and the answer is duller than the anxiety around it.

There is no dress code

The Duomo’s covered-shoulders rule does not apply here. What matters instead is your feet. Two floors of gallery and more than seven hundred metres of corridor makes a long walk on hard floors, and that is why people flag halfway through rather than any shortage of interest. Comfortable shoes are the one piece of kit that changes the visit. Where you end up walking to afterwards is set out on how to get there.

Cameras and phones

Photography rules and cloakroom arrangements belong to the museum and it changes them, so we will not state them as fixed. The current position is published on uffizi.it. If you have booked an option with an audio app, install it and download the content before you arrive rather than standing in the courtyard waiting for it.

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