The Uffizi Galleries in Florence, Italy, began auctioning non-fungible tokens of some of its most famous artworks to recover losses from months of lost revenue during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The museum already sold one NFT: A digital replica of Michelangelo’s painting Doni Tondo for $170,000 on May 14, according to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.

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