Tribuna of the Uffizi Tribuna of the Uffizi The Tribuna of the Uffizi is an octagonal room in the Uffizi gallery, Florence, Italy. Designed by Bernardo Buontalenti for Francesco I de' Medici for Cosimo I de’ Medici in 1584, the most important antiquities and High Renaissance and Bolognese paintings from the Medici collection were and still are displayed here. In 1737 the Grand Duchess Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici ceded the collection to the Tuscan government, and by the 1770s the Uffizi (and in particular the Tribuna) was the hub for Grand Tourists visiting Florence. Johann Zoffany's famous painting of the Tribuna, commissioned by
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery City Museums & Gallery, which was founded in 1951, at the time. Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery closed its building at the start of September 2016 for major redevelopment. It is planned to re-open in spring 2020 as The Box, Plymouth which will encompass the Museum and Art Gallery, former Central Library and St Luke's Church buildings with a major new extension designed by Atkins. It will bring collections from the museum, Plymouth and West Devon Record Office, South West Film and Television Archive, South West Image Bank and the Local Studies and Reference collection from the Central Library