Museum sights in Friuli Venezia Giulia
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Civico Museo Teatrale Carlo Schmidl
At the south edge of Borgo Teresiano, take time for the Civico Museo Teatrale Carlo Schmidl, housed in the grand Palazzo Gopcevich. It retraces the history of theatre and music in Trieste to the 18th century, with an engaging collection of historical instruments on the 1st and 2nd floors and a collection of signatures of such greats as Gioacchino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini.
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Biblioteca Civica
Three small museums call the Biblioteca Civica home. The Museo Civico di Storia Naturale displays a musty array of stuffed animals and bones. Literature fans can poke about documents and other memorabilia linked to two great 20th-century novelists in the Museo Joyce and the adjacent Museo Svevo. James Joyce wrote some of his masterpieces in Trieste, and lugubrious local boy Italo Svevo wrote all of his in the city.
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Civico Museo di Storia ed Arte ed Orto Lapidario
The Civico Museo di Storia ed Arte ed Orto Lapidario unites a host of mostly Roman antiquities unearthed in and around Trieste and Aquileia. The more delicate items of Roman, Greek, Egyptian and prehistoric art and artefacts are spread over two floors, while the Orto Lapidario (Stone Garden) is a potluck assembly of more weather-resistant stone finds. Take bus 24 from the train station.
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Civico Museo Sartorio
The Civico Museo Sartorio offers a varied collection of art, applied arts and jewellery. During restoration work, beautiful ceiling frescoes, some dating to the late 18th century, were uncovered, along with remains of the mosaic floor of a Roman house (domus).
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Museo della Comunità Ebraica Carlo e Vera Wagner
Memories of Trieste’s Jewish heritage are preserved at the Museo della Comunità Ebraica Carlo e Vera Wagner, which has a small exhibition of liturgical items, textiles, documents and photographs.
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Museo d’Arte Orientale
The Museo d’Arte Orientale, in an 18th-century town house, contains an eclectic collection of Chinese porcelain and Japanese prints, drawings, musical instruments and weaponry.
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Museo del Duomo
Housed in a couple of chapels is the Museo del Duomo, among whose most interesting elements are the 13th- to 17th-century frescoes in the Cappella di San Nicolò.
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Museo Archeologico
Admission to the Galleria d'Arte Antica includes a visit to the Museo Archeologico, also in the castle, with objects dating as far back as the Iron Age.
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