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The Torrini Museum
VISITS ARE SUSPENDED FOR RESTORATION
This museum is the site of a history of art housing about 200 pieces of goldsmithery, silverware, objets d’art, and watches realised by the Torrini family and which bear the ancient trademark: the unmistakable Signum that was deposited by Jacopus Turini with the Guild of Blacksmiths, Cuirass-Makers and Nail-Makers of Florence in 1369 and is currently conserved in the State Archives. This ancient trademark, which has been handed down for more than six centuries and is engraved on every Torrini manufacture, guarantees us a reliable attribution of the various exemplars and a very important dating of the various passages that this family has left in its work between the late 16th century and the artistic vanguards linked to the ferments of the early 1970.
A worldwide search made for objects bearing the aforesaid Signum has made it possible to create the Torrini Museum after the archives and buildings were
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