Museum sights in Italy
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Museo Statale d'Arte Medievale e Moderna
A repository of art from churches in the Arezzo diocese, this time-worn museum is in urgent need of some tender loving care. If it wasn't for the presence of Pietro Lorenzetti's Madonna with Child and Saints Agnes and Catherine (c 1310–15) and Parri di Spinello's Madonna della Misericordia (c 1437), we'd be tempted to advise giving it a miss.
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Teatro delle Muse
The ornate Teatro delle Muse, built in 1826, has a neoclassical facade of six Ionic columns which meld with Greek friezes portraying Apollo and the Muses.
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Diocesan Museum
Just opposite the cathedral is the small diocesan museum where you can see segments of a 4th-century Roman mosaic that was recently discovered under the cathedral floor.
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Museo Diocesano
In the cellars of the former bishop’s palace, the Museo Diocesano statues are displayed. Highlights include a finely sculpted Solomon and Sheba and a 5th-century early Christian mosaic, which was discovered under Piazza del Duomo.
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Chiesa di Sant'Eulalia
Chiesa di Sant'Eulalia is interesting not so much for the church (which can't be visited) but for the adjoining Museo del Tesoro e Area Archeologica di Sant'Eulalia.
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Museo Archeologico Nazionale
For a change of period, the Museo Archeologico Nazionale exhibits Roman artefacts discovered around Parma and Etruscan finds from the Po valley.
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Museo Donizettiano
The Museo Donizettiano is an ornate hall housing the piano and manuscripts of Bergamo’s favourite musical son, Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848).
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Museo Civico
The Museo Civico houses archaeological finds from the area, folk crafts and some Carlo Levi paintings in an attractive old palazzo.
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Museo d'Arte Sacra
Works of religious art from the Collegiata and other churches in the town are on display in this modest museum. Those who are interested in medieval religious objects will appreciate the items made from precious metals, including beautifully crafted chalices and thuribles (censers), as well as some exquisitely embroidered textiles.
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Duomo Nuovo
The Duomo Nuovo, dating from 1604, dwarfs its ancient neighbour, the 11th-century Duomo Vecchio, but is of less interest.
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Museo Storico Nazionale dell’Arte Sanitaria
Next to the Pronto Soccorso department of the Ospedale Santo Spirito, this medical museum has a ghoulish collection of surgical instruments, macabre curiosities and anatomical models.
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Museo Archeologico
The Museo Archeologico holds a small collection of tribal artefacts from Piceni and other European people back to the first centuries AD.
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Museo Tecnico Navale
See model ships and polene (statuettes that graced the prows of vessels) at the 1870-founded naval museum, Museo Tecnico Navale.
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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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Villa Nobel
The Moorish Villa Nobel houses a museum dedicated to Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who established the Nobel Prize while living here.
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Museo Cerio
Museo Cerio harbours a library of books and journals about the island (mostly in Italian) and a collection of locally found fossils.
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Museo del Papiro
The Museo del Papiro includes papyrus documents and products, boats and a good English-language film about the history of papyrus.
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Museo di Stato
The archaeological artefacts and paintings at the small Museo di Stato are mainstream, including several canvases by Guercino.
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Museo dell'Emigrazione Eoliana
The Museo dell'Emigrazione Eoliana in Palazzo Marchetti gives visitors an idea of the scale and effect of emigration from the Aeolian Islands.
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Oratorio del Rosario di Santa Zita
Covered in ornate stuccowork, this former social club for the celebs of its time are ostentatious displays of 17th-century status and wealth.
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Castello di San Giorgio
There is an assortment of local archaeological artefacts from prehistoric to medieval times at the Castello di San Giorgio.
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Museo della Natura Morta
The Museo della Natura Morta showcases a fine collection of 16th- to 18th-century still lifes inside and magnificent sprawling gardens out.
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Palazzo dei Musei
Modena’s main museums and galleries are housed in the Palazzo dei Musei on the western fringes of the historic centre.
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Castello Visconteo
Looming over the old town is the forbidding Castello Visconteo, built in 1360 for Galeazzo II Visconti. It now houses the Museo Civico.
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Museo Civico d’Arte
The Museo Civico d’Arte’s eclectic collection are the sections devoted to traditional paper-making, textiles and musical instruments.
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