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Museums and art galleries

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The museums and exhibitions in Genoa

genova museiThere are various museums, art galleries and exhibitions in town along with civic museums (Comune di Genova museums). There are also two national museums and many private ones.

The municipal facilities are well-structured in a complex framework of museums, libraries, and archives all belonging to the Town council and organized over more than twenty sites

  • the town museums are structured around themed paths: sea, art world cultures, science and nature, history and archeology.
  • the Archives
  • the Research Centre on the history of Art and Image of the Town of Genoa
  • fabric and Fashion Studies Centre DVJ - Damasco Velluto Jeans
  • special Libraries
  • the Didactic Centre, which organizes activities and provides services for families and schools

The civic Museums

Some museums are organized in centres providing coordinated activities:

  • the Sea Museums: Galata Museo del Mare, Museo Navale di Pegli and Castello D’Albertis
  • The Nervi Museums: GAM, Raccolte Frugone and Museo Luxoro
  • the Museums of Strada Nuova: Palazzo Rosso, Palazzo Bianco and Palazzo Tursi, structured along the ancient "museum street"
  • The Research Centre:History of Art Library, the Photographic Archive, the Collections of cartographies and topographic maps.

The network of the Municipal structures is also present on a website of all Genoa Town Museums where you can find both a detailed description of what the museums offer and also real time information about the cultural events of the area: a service providing daily information about the initiatives, exhibitions, shows, meetings and everything that takes place in the town museums.

Furthermore all the museum, art gallery, library and town archive websites have a common surfing structure concerning information, publications, links to other sites dealing with cultural heritage and so on. This connection reinforces the idea of a network of coordinated museum sites which enables the surfer to have easy access to all information.

information about accessibility Disabled access has been checked by Terre di Mare Association. Consult the webpage http://www.terredimare.it/schede_vi... of our Museums.

1. Musei di Strada Nuova - Palazzo Bianco

Strada Nuova museums - Palazzo Bianco

Via Garibaldi, 11 - Genova

An important collection of European, Italian and Genoese paintings from the XV to the XVIII century: near the exquisite masterpieces by Italian (Caravaggio, Veronese), Flemish (Hans Memling. Gerard David, Jean Provost, Rubens, Van Dyck), Dutch (Steen), French (Vouet, Lancret) and Spanish (Zurbaràn, Murillo), painters, a wide collection of Genoese paintings from the XVI and XVIII century (Magnasco, Cambiaso, Strozzi, Piola) stands out. The Byzantine banner (1261) is very remarkable.

Opening time: Tues-Fri 9am - 7pm, Sat and Sun 10am - 7pm.

Monday closed

2. Musei di Strada Nuova - Palazzo Rosso

Strada Nuova museums - Palazzo Rosso

Via Garibaldi 18 - Genova

A luxurious group of frescoes by the greatest Ligurian painters of the XVII century and precious furnishings, stands out the magnificent picture gallery with paintings collected over two centuries by by the Brignole-Sale family. The exhibition of the gallery shows paintings by: Veronese, Guercino, Strozzi, Grechetto, Carbone, Van Dyck, Dürer and many others.

Opening time:Tues-Fri 9am - 7pm, Sat and Sun 10am - 7pm.

Monday closed.

3. Musei di Strada Nuova - Palazzo Tursi

Strada Nuova museums - Palazzo Tursi

Via Garibaldi 9 - Genova

The Palace was built in the "Century of the Genoese" and houses the official state rooms of the Mayor as well as an extension of the Palazzo Bianco gallery. In its monumental rooms you can see very famous pieces such as Guarneri del Gesù, the violin that belonged to Paganini, a remarkable collection of decorative artworks, a coin collection and also a collection of the official weights and measures of the old Republic of Genoa.

Opening Time: Tues-Fri 9am - 7pm, Sat and Sun 10am - 7pm.

Monday closed.

4. Museo di Sant'Agostino

Sant’Agostino Museum

Piazza Sarzano 35R - Genova

The Museum is inside the Middle Age (XIII century) Augustinian convent complex .It shows sculptures, Italian and Liguria frescoes and tombstones dating back from the X to the XVIII century. Along with works by F.M. Schiaffino, V. Castello, Domenico Piola, Luca Cambiaso, F. Parodi,there are masterpieces by Giovanni Pisano, Pierre Puget and Antonio Canova. The Topographic Collection, a collection of maps from different ages and of great historical importance, is particularly remarkable.

Opening time: Tue-Fri 9am - 7pm, Sat and Sun 10am - 7pm.

Monday closed

5. Museo del Tesoro della Cattedrale di San Lorenzo

San Lorenzo Cathedral Museum

Cattedrale di San Lorenzo, Piazza San Lorenzo - Genova

In the vaults of the San Lorenzo Cathedral there are masterpieces of jewellery and sacred art from the XI to the XIX century as well as extremely important artistic silverware connected with the cult of the Cathedral and the history of the town. Amongthe most remarkable pieces are: the Holy Basin; the Byzantine Cross of Zaccaria; the Urn holding the Ashes of St John the Baptist and many other objects concerning the cult of St John the Baptist .

Opening time: Mon-Sat 9am -12am/3pm - 6pm. Sun. closed.

6. GAM - Galleria d'Arte Moderna con opere della Collezione Wolfson

GAM - Modern art gallery and Wolfson collection

Villa Saluzzo Serra - Via Capolungo 3 - Genova Nervi

The Gallery is derived from the nucleus Prince Odone di Savoia’s collection, later enriched by further legacies and purchases. It is housed in the XVII century Villa Saluzzo in Nervi, where are exhibited over 2500 artworks such as paintings, sculptures, drawings and engravings dating from the XIX century to modern times. Among the numerous artists exhibited are: Ernesto Rayper, Tammar Luxoro, Renato Guttuso.

Opening time: Tue-Sun 10am - 7pm. Monday closed.

7. Museo Raccolte Frugone

Raccolte Frugone Museum

Villa Grimaldi Fassio, Via Capolungo 9 - Genova Nervi

Since 1993 the museum has had its seat in Nervi, in the XVIII century Villa Grimaldi Fassio, of the XVIII century, bought by the Town Council in 1979. The remarkable XIX - XX century art collections of the Frugone brothers consist of paintings, sculptures and drawings by Italian and foreign artists working between the second half of the XIX century and the beginning of the XX century. Among the artists exhibited here are: Bistolfi, Fontanesi, Mancini, Messina, Segantini, Signorini, Boldini, Rubino, Milesi, Tito, Michetti and Sorolla y Bastida.

Opening time:Tue-Fri 9am - 7pm. Sat and Sun 10am- 7pm. Monday closed.

8. Museo Giannettino Luxoro

Giannettino Luxoro Museum

Via Mafalda di Savoia, 3 - Genova Nervi

The Museum is housed a refined Genoese style Villa in Nervi dating back to the XVI_XVII century, since 1951 the museum has exhibited the collections of the Luxoro family: paintings, furniture, furnishings, pottery, silverware, mirrors, engraved frames, ancient fabrics; a collection of precious items deriving from production mainly dating back to Liguria in XVII- XVIII century; a collection of old long cased clocks, a collection of XVII and XVII century Nativity scene replicas; a collection of paintings by the Genoese school of the XVIII century.

Opening time: Tue-Fri 9am - 1pm, Sat 10am -1pm.

Sunday and Monday closed.

9. Museo d'arte contemporanea Villa Croce

Villa Croce Contemporary art museum

Via J. Ruffini 3 - Genova

The Villa Croce Museum boasts an artistic heritage with more than 3.000 Italian and foreign artworks of the period 1939-1980; mid-900 Genoese and Liguria art, Italian graphic art from the mid-XX century and it houses the great Maria Cemuschi Ghiringhelli collection of abstractionism with over two hundred works by the most important Italian artists. The library and the archive are open to visitors.

Opening time: Tue-Fri 9am - 6.30pm, Sat and Sun 10am - 6.30pm.

Monday closed.

Collections: Mon-Fri 9-13, Sat 10-13

10. DVJ Damasco Velluto Jeans

DVJ Damasco Velluto Jeans

Palazzo Bianco, Via Garibaldi, 11 - Genova

A study centre and an exhibition centre with exceptional collections of fabrics, that was set up by the Town Council in collaboration with the Monuments and Fine Arts Office. Visitors will be shown laces, old clothes, damasks, velvet and wrought fabrics dating back from the XVI and the XIX century, all of remarkable artistic value.

Opening time: Tues-Fri 9am - 7pm, Sat and Sun 10am - 7pm.

Monday closed.

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