Inaugurated in 1891 on a project by Opera architect Luigi del Moro, renovated after the 1966 flood, and today with a layout dated December 1999, the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo must be considered one of the most important church museums in Italy.
The present palazzo was built over a previous construction purchased in 1400.
Since the end of the 1800s, there has been an uninterrupted flow to the Museum of all of the works of art which, for reasons of conservation, have been removed from their outdoor location at Santa Maria del Fiore, the Baptistery and the Campanile.
The collection is therefore the most tangible testimony of a typically Florentine tradition of the plastic arts which formed in the various phases of the construction (building) of Santa Maria del Fiore and for centuries evolved at her work sites.