The rooms of Palazzo Pretorio are home to the Russian Icon Museum, which was founded when a collection was donated by Francesco Bigazzi, a journalist originally from Peccioli and the long time correspondent from Poland and Moscow.

The first section of the museum is devoted to the earliest icons which represent the numerous and various schools of Russian iconography, from the schools of Moscow to those of Kiev or Kazan. It then passes to the more recent icons, such as those of the Bigazzi Collection, merging ancient spirituality with modern mentality.

The Museum of Sacred Arts, created thanks to the participation of the Parish and the municipal government of Peccioli, is part of the town’s “Polo Museale” and is part of a process of recovery and development which has, above all, involved the Chapel dell’Assunta and the Sacristy and secondly, the paintings, the processional crosses and the sacred furnishings preserved in the Parish of Peccioli. Inside it is possible to view, apart from the Madre di Dio and the San Nicola, other precious paintings, and sacred furnishings and hangings restored for the occasion.