Museums in Italy

The Art Gallery of Catania is located in the large seaside castle built under Frederick II (early 13th century) now located inland due to lava flows having extended the coastline. The art collection consists primarily of works ranging from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century, and the...

One of the greatest galleries containing several masterpieces of Italian art from the XIV to the XX century such as: Raphael’s "Marriage of the Virgin"; Giovanni Bellini’s "Pietà"; Piero della Francesca’s "Urbino Altarpiece"; Andrea Mantegna’s "The Dead Christ"; Caravaggio’s "Supper at...

The Early Christian catacombs are one of the most popular sights in Rome, which form an underground maze on the outskirts of the Rome. These catacombs provide a rare glimpse into the earliest centuries of Christianity. In addition to the countless burial chambers that line the tunnels, these...

The building was designed by Carnalivari at the end of the 15th century as the residence of Francesco Abatellis, harbormaster of the Kingdom of the two Sicilies. The palace is one of the most significant Gothic-Catalan architectonic samples in Western Sicily. Its gallery features sculptures and...

A theatrical museum and library joining the opera house La Scala. Opened in 1913, it has focuses on the history of opera and of La Scala opera house.

The museum hosts material from excavations on the prehistoric period Sardinian (necropolis Anghelu Ruiu, Nuraghe Palmavera, Nuraghe Nieddu etc).One can admire this period: necklaces made of bone, characteristic basket vases andCycladic figurines representing the mother goddess.

Housed in a 17th century monastery, the museum boasts the various artistic periods and civilizations of Western Sicily from prehistory to the late Roman period. The small entrance of the museum leads to a cloister which, divided into three rooms at the end, displays magnificent pieces from the...

Some mine workers created the museum in 1998. The aim is to keep and let know many of those things that have enabled the miner to dominate the rock, studying and creating new things, become the creator of a mining culture that for centuries was the center of social and economic life.

The museum represents all aspects of traditional material and culture of Sardinia (clothes, jewelry, textiles and wood, weapons, masks, cakes, folk music instruments, tools and instruments and household work, etc).

The building hosting the museum was originally the Barbera-Mellinghoff spinning-mill, a late nineteenth-century construction used after the great earthquake of 1908. The museum illustrates the development of art and culture in Messina from the 12th to the 18th centuries, with outstanding artworks...