The Marino Marini Museum is located in the historic centre of Florence inside the former Church of San Pancrazio. After almost two centuries in which the space was deconsecreated and used in various ways, the city’s first museum of modern and contemporary art opened here in 1988 with an architecture that pleasantly merges ancient and modern thanks to a laborious restoration work by architects Bruno Sacchi and Lorenzo Papi. Inside the museum, “paths” were conceived and created aimed at viewing the works of Marino Marini (1901-1980), with particular focus to the exalted three-dimensionality of the artist from Pistoia, famous all over the world for his “horses and knights”. Ample and luminous spaces, multiple points of view permit a complete reading of the work of the artist, highlighting the themes of which he was most fond, from the Knights to the Pomona, from the Miracles to the Jugglers, to the Dancers and naturally to the portraits. In addition to the permanent collection of the 183 works of the artist Marino Marini – among sculptures, paintings, drawings and engravings – there are the exhibitions dedicated to artists and themes from the 20th century to modern times. 
Given the proximity of the ex-church to the Rucellai family palace across the street, the museum path also includes the Cappella Rucellai (Rucellai Chapel), part of a phase in which the family requested the intervention of the architect Leon Battista Alberti (1457-67). In this space, you can visit the the sacellum of the Holy Sepulchre of Leon Battista Alberti, one of the “wonders” of Florentine Renaissance.