DURING SIX CENTURIES, WE WELCOME TREASURES – June 24, 2016: in Florence opened the Museo degli Innocenti

Helping children and families, the Innocenti in Florence has worked uninterruptedly for over six centuries, like citizen institution dedicated to taking in children. The institute waiting for you in the old hospital in Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, where you can find the precious complex of the Museo degli Innocenti. http://www.istitutodeglinnocenti.it/?q=content/home To protect the rights of childhood and adolescence, but also to enhance its artistic and archival heritage, the Museo degli Innocenti continues to welcome children (from 0 to 6 years), in its own structure for abandoned children. The work of assistance is also present in the “House Mothers” (for women with children, and pregnant women in difficult situations), and in the “Swallows House” (for mothers in the final period of their path of autonomy). The new Museo degli Innocenti, opens to the public June 24, 2016, offering visitors a special tour, one that is built around the theme of the reception, telling six centuries of activity, that is, a continuous thread with the history of the institution