The museum, was reopened to the public in the summer of 1990 after the restoration of the building, paintings and a new preparation of the works. It houses the collection gathered throughout the life of Angiolo Maria Bandini (1726-1803), a church-going man, a man of letters, learned, historian and philologist. The collection includes paintings from the thirteenth century besides numerous sculpures form the Della Robbia school, these will be displayed only in the near future because they are still undergoing restoration.
 
The paintings present a panorama of Tuscan art particularly Florentine "on a gold background" and mostly from the school of Giotto.
 
They include works of Bernardo Daddi, Taddeo Gaddi, Nardo di Sione, Lorenzo Monaco, Cosimo Rosselli, Jacopo del Sellaio and the Botticelli school.