Friends of the Uffizi Gallery aned richly-draped lower part were added by Alessandro Algardi, an artist hired by the Medici in the 17th Century to integrate the fragments into a single sculpture. This restoration project involved removing thick layers of accumulated dust and greatly increased documentary information. Friends of the Uffizi Gallery The Friends of the Uffizi Gallery was established in 2006 in Palm Beach, Florida as the United States "sister" organization to the Amici degli Uffizi in Florence, Italy, which was founded by a group of concerned citizens in response to the terrorist bombing of the Uffizi Gallery in May 1993 that damaged several
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BM&AG) () is a museum and art gallery in Birmingham, England. It has a collection of international importance covering fine art, ceramics, metalwork, jewellery, natural history, archaeology, ethnography, local history and industrial history. The museum/gallery is run by Birmingham Museums Trust, the largest independent museums trust in the United Kingdom, which also runs eight other museums around the city. Entrance to the Museum and Art Gallery is free, but some major exhibitions in the Gas Hall incur an entrance fee. In 2017, 602,634 visitors came to the museum. In 1829,