The Galleria dell'Accademia (Academy's Gallery) is another important muesum in Florence, containing several sculpture works by Michelangelo Buonarroti and a rich collection of paintings by Florentine painters done between the XIII and the XIX centuries, among which they stand out the Deposizioni (Depositions) by Filippino Lippi and Perugino, inside the first hall.

Inside the section dedicated to Michelangelo, called Galleria delle opere di Michelangelo (Gallery of Michelangelo's works) we find: four among the six Prigioni (Prisons), allegorical statues for the tomb of pope Giulio II, representing the soul imprisoned inside human body (the others are in Paris, inside the Museum of Louvre); the Palestrina's Pietà, one of the last works by the artist; and most of all the world renowned David, done by Michelangelo still young between 1501 and 1504, extracted by a huge block of marble neglected by all other sculpors since it was considered useless for a single work, because of its wrong proportions.