Official Information
Official websites: https://www.duomoarezzo.it/ (Cathedral Museum)
https://museiarezzo.it/biglietteria/ (Casa Vasari and museum network ticketing)
Addresses:
Museo Diocesano (MUDAS): Piazza del Duomo 1, 52100 Arezzo (AR), Italy
Casa Vasari: Via XX Settembre 55, 52100 Arezzo (AR), Italy
Map: View on Google Maps
Opening Hours
The MUDAS Diocesan Museum and Casa Vasari usually operate with daytime opening hours that vary by season and day of the week, often closing one weekday and maintaining reduced hours in low season. Combined tickets and passes are sold through the MUAR (Musei di Arezzo) network; always refer to museiarezzo.it for current schedules and holiday closures.
In Arezzo, art lovers can combine two complementary visits: the Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art (MUDAS), which forms part of the cathedral complex, and Casa Vasari, the richly decorated home of painter, architect and art historian Giorgio Vasari. The MUDAS Museum is housed in the episcopal palace on Piazza del Duomo, directly opposite the cathedral. Its collection gathers liturgical furnishings, paintings, sculpture and textiles from the diocese, spanning from the Middle Ages through the Baroque period. Highlights typically include painted wooden crucifixes, panel paintings from dismantled altarpieces, illuminated manuscripts and precious metalwork once used in the cathedral and major churches of the territory. The setting—vaulted rooms and historic corridors—reinforces the link between the objects and their ecclesiastical origins. Interpretation focuses on explaining iconography and local workshop traditions, so the museum gives a strong sense of Arezzo’s religious and artistic identity over centuries. A short downhill walk brings you to Casa Vasari, part of the MUAR city museum network. Vasari bought and decorated this house for his family in the mid 16th century, and it became both a private residence and a manifesto of his artistic ideas. The painted cycles inside, many executed to Vasari’s own designs, include allegories of the arts, virtues and classical themes, covering ceilings and walls in an almost continuous tapestry of colour. Walking through the rooms, you can appreciate the role of painted decoration in late Renaissance domestic interiors and see how Vasari applied the theories he expressed in his celebrated “Lives of the Artists”. The house also preserves period furnishings and displays related artworks and documents, helping visitors picture everyday life for an ambitious court artist of the Medici era. Tickets are often available as part of combined passes that include several city museums, making it economical to pair these two sites in a single morning or afternoon. Together, the cathedral museum and Casa Vasari provide a balanced experience: sacred art rooted in local devotion and a very personal, almost autobiographical domestic space created by one of Italy’s most influential art historians.