Stibbert Museum
Villa museum crowded with a private cavalry of armored knights and one of the largest samurai collections outside Japan.
This guide to the Stibbert Museum in Florence introduces Frederick Stibbert, an Englishman born in the city in 1838 who inherited a fortune from his grandfather's East India Company commission and spent decades collecting suits of armor: European knights, Ottoman horsemen, and one of the largest collections of samurai armor outside Japan. You'll hear about his brief turn as a soldier riding with Garibaldi's volunteers in 1866, and about the life he built alone inside this villa, room by room, until it held tens of thousands of pieces. Stand among the mounted knights and riders as you make your way through.
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