The museum was located on Via dell'Oriuolo in a former convent of the Oblates.
It closed permanently in October 2010 to make space for the enlargement of the Biblioteca delle Oblate.
Some of its exhibits will be incorporated into a new City museum portraying Florence through the ages, to be housed in Palazzo Vecchio.
[1] The museum's collections included the 14 surviving paintings of Medici villas by Giusto Utens.
These were transferred in 2014 to a new permanent gallery at Petraia Villa Medici.