Centrica handled the digital development of Michelangelo 550, the new web app from Florence’s Galleria dell’Accademia, which allows users to explore the master’s work, both in the museum and around the city, as part of the exhibition L’eterno contemporaneo. Michelangelo 1475–2025.

The platform, accessible from mobile devices via QR codes located inside the museum, offers a lightweight and functional solution for viewing numerous multimedia contents.

As the Galleria dell’Accademia points out:

Michelangelo 550 is a simple and intuitive digital platform, designed primarily for use on smartphones, which does not require any downloads. Simply scan the QR codes located next to Michelangelo’s masterpieces to access a multimedia narrative with original content—text, audio, video—illustrating the history of the works, their contexts of origin, the techniques used to create them, as well as comparisons and relationships with other masters of the 16th century and works created by Michelangelo himself in Florence. All content is presented in a deliberately narrative and non-traditional style and has been designed to be accessible to a non-specialist audience.

We are proud to have contributed to the creation of Michelangelo 550, available to all visitors to the Galleria dell’Accademia from September 30. We invite you to discover or rediscover all the museum’s masterpieces through new interactive and engaging ways.