The exhibition that offers to see the collection of arts and sophisticated handiwork that used to belong to the well-known Florentine dynasty, Medici, is opening in the Museums of the Moscow Kremlin. Pieces from the Medici`s collection are currently dispersed among various museums of Florence - some went to the Bargello National Museum, the Uffizi Gallery and Florence Mosaic Museum. However most of the collection is housed in the Silver Museum of Palazzo Pitti, bought by the Medici family in 1549 and becoming their main residence for centuries. All these museums have joined forces to send the cream of the collection to the Kremlin as part of the Russia-Italy Cross-Cultural Year. The display features paintings, vases from semiprecious stones, books, antique vessels and cameos, rich ivory and silver carving, jewelry - everything the Medici family had been collecting throughout centuries. Carving on precious and semiprecious stones is one of the highlights of the display, as the Medici from the very beginning fell for these beauties and kept collecting them for ages. The chronological order of the exhibits` organization allows one to track the changes in tastes of the Medici House, from Lorenzo the Magnificent to Anna Maria Luisa de` Medici. By the way, it was Anna who presented the family collection as a gift to the city of Florence. Remarkable pieces of the famous Florentine mosaic created by the Medici manufacturers can also be found at the display. A special place is given to the splendid fine jewelry of the last representative of the family - Anna Maria Luisa. The display opens simultaneously with the one in Palazzo Pitti that will be welcoming the "Treasures of the Kremlin" exhibition. More than 150 pieces come from the famous Armory Chamber of the Kremlin, representing the richest collection from one of the oldest museums in Russia, telling the story of tsars across the centuries. The display in Moscow, as well as the one in Florence, will end simultaneously on August 1.