Museums in Genoa
Museum of Risorgimento
Inaugurated on 5 May 1915 in Palazzo Bianco, it has since 1934 been located in the birthplace of Giuseppe Mazzini. It preserves and exhibits a rich historical and artistic heritage through which the symbolic figures of Risorgimento are brought to life: Giuseppe Mazzini and the republican and democratic movement; Giuseppe Garibaldi and the Red Shirts; Goffredo Mameli and the Italian Anthem.
The exhibition traces the historical events that led to the unification of Italy, from the Genoese anti-Austrian revolt in 1746 to the inauguration of the Monument to the Thousand of Quarto in 1915.
The substantial historical, artistic and documentary heritage preserved in the institute was created through donations and purchases as early as the nineteenth century. Paintings, prints, posters, sculptures, documents, photographs, uniforms, weapons, flags and relics cover a time span that goes beyond the strict chronology of the Risorgimento, and includes items from the 18th century to the Second World War and the Liberation.
Among the most significant works of the nineteenth century are the portraits of Goffredo Mameli, Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi, respectively painted by Domenico Induno, Emilie Ashurst, Gacinto Gallino. Also famous is the canvas by the Dutch painter Peter Tetar Van Elven with the faithful depiction of the departure of the Thousand from the rock of Quarto, which is flanked by the works of Plinio Nomellini created for the inauguration of the Monument to the Thousand (May 5, 1915), and the sketch by the sculptor Eugenio Baroni, winner of the national competition.
Highly evocative objects include the Red Shirts and the precious Flag of the Thousand in silk (1860) as well as Mazzini's guitar, always with him in his long London exile, which is still played today on special occasions.
Among the documents, a prominent place belongs to the first autographed draft of the Canto degli Italiani by Goffredo Mameli (1847) and to the Act of Surrender of the German troops signed in Genoa on 25 April 1945.
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Oriental Art Museum E. Chiossone
In the city centre, in the 19th-century park of Villetta Di Negro overlooking one of Genoa’s most elegant squares, Piazza Corvetto, there is a space dedicated to the Far East. Facing the sea, stands a building in perfect rationalist style, specifically designed by Mario Labò to house the collection donated to the city of Genoa by Edoardo Chiossone. Skilled Genoese engraver who lived and worked in Japan at the end of the 19th century, Chiossone is known throughout the world for having designed the first Japanese banknotes and securities.
Founded in 1905 the Museum, which is named after him, was the first museum dedicated to Japanese art to be founded in Italy, and houses the largest, most precious and most varied collection of Japanese art in Italy and one of the most important in Europe.
The Museum houses the rich heritage of Japanese and Chinese art collected by the Genoese Edoardo Chiossone in Japan at the end of the 19th century:
Buddhist sculptures, archaeological finds, armor and theatrical masks are exhibited in the permanent museum itinerary, together with porcelain, lacquers and bronzes, while exceptional ukiyo-e paintings and woodblock prints are visible during the temporary exhibitions.
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Individual Ticket Oriental Art Museum E. Chiossone
regular price 5 €
reduced price 3 €
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Reduced 2 € for young people aged 18 to 26 year
gratuito
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In case of particular events or temporary exhibitions ticket prices are subject to change.
Membership Card for Young People (18 to 30 years old) – Kohai – €35.00
Free entry to the Museum throughout the year for the cardholder, with a discounted entry for one companion; a complimentary catalog of choice from a selection of those available for sale at the Museum; priority booking for events at the Museum; one free guided tour per year of the Museum by the curator; one free guided tour of a temporary exhibition conducted by the curator.
Membership Card for Adults Over 30 – Senpai – €80.00
Free entry to the Museum throughout the year for both the cardholder and one companion; a complimentary catalog of choice from all the catalogs available at the Museum; an exclusive Museum gift; priority booking for events at the Museum; one free guided tour per year of the Museum by the curator; guided tours of two temporary exhibitions by the curator; free participation in a special "Behind the Scenes" event once a year on special occasions (e.g., following the setup or deinstallation of an exhibition or overseeing the return of an artwork after restoration).
Booking online (presale 1 €)
For complaints and returns download this form
In case of impossibility to visit the museum, you can request a refund of the entrance tickets (single, full or reduced, cards), including those purchased online. The refund request must be submitted within 15 days of the outage using this form.
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Tabaccheria Tredici Bis di Galli Fabrizio - Piazzale Parenzo 23/R 16139 Genova
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Mario Rossi
Palazzo Spinola
UNESCO World heritage
An aristocratic palazzo in the heart of the city’s historic centre which was included in the Rolli System at the end of the 16th century. This is Palazzo Spinola, visitors will discover its luxurious 16th and 18th-century rooms, embellished with frescoes and oriental furnishings, fabrics and porcelain: a succession of spaces in which are exhibited one of the most important historical picture collections in the city, the scope of which allows you to immerse yourself in that refined and precious atmosphere that characterised the taste of the nobility of the Superba.
The visit is varied by the unusual possibility of discovering some characteristic spaces, such as the 19th-century kitchens or the famous Gallery of Mirrors.
The two “piani nobili” preserves the extraordinary artistic heritage which has been built over the generations thanks to the careful artistic patronage of its owners. Thus we have a precious example of an aristocratic house in which, on the first floor, the seventeenth-century aspects linked to the Grimaldi and Pallavicinos predominates, while the second is characterised by the eighteenth-century renovation associated with Maddalena Doria Spinola.
The last two floors of the building house the National Gallery of Liguria’s collection of paintings, sculptures, ceramics, furnishings that, already rich, have been gradually increased thanks to donations or purchases by the Italian State.
For more information, please refer to the website of Palazzo Spinola https://palazzospinola.cultura.gov.it/
Frescoes, stuccos, paintings, sculptures and precious furnishings accompany the discovery of one of the best preserved and most emblematic “house” museums in the city.
The works collected by the families who owned the palazzo and which, remarkaby, are still preserved in the building for which they were originally intended - such as the Portrait of Ansaldo Pallavicino by Van Dyck or the large canvases in the hall on the second piano nobili by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione and Luca Giordano, are further enriched by those that of recent acquisitions by the Italian State: from Antonello da Messina's Ecce Homo to Rubens's Portrait of Gio. Carlo Doria.
Museum of Ligustica Accademy of Fine Arts
In the city centre, overlooking Piazza De Ferrari, the historic building of the Ligustica Academy of fine arts, founded in 1751, also houses its museum: a collection of paintings and sculptures, coming from purchases or donations over the course of the institution's two-centuries of history.
The Accademia’s art collection comprises paintings, drawings, prints, engraving plates, plaster casts, bronze and marble sculptures, stone architectural elements, plaster and terracotta bozzetti, ceramics, a photography and photographic plate collection, art volumes and medals.
The most important collection, however, is that of the art gallery, which taken as a whole, constitutes a significant survey of art in Liguria from the fourteenth to the twenty-first century.
The rich collection of the Ligustica Academy preserves precious "gold backgrounds" and masterpieces by the great masters of the Genoese school between the 16th and 17th centuries, from Luca Cambiaso to Bernardo Strozzi and Domenico Piola, along with 19th-century works by Alfredo Luxoro, Ernesto Rayper, Alfredo D'Andrade, Serafino De Avendano, Antonio Varni.
It is also worth highlighting works by Rubaldo Merello, Plinio Nomellini, Giuseppe Cominetti, Matteo Baroni dating from the 20th century.
Villa del Principe
This Renaissance Villa del Principe was built for Andrea Doria, the great admiral of Charles V, at the beginning of the 16th century. The villa, built in the area of Fassolo, just outside the city walls to the west, was seat of the only true “court” of the Genoese Republic.
It is still the property of his descendants who have decided to use the monumental parts as a museum. The visit, through a succession of richly decorated and furnished rooms, allows you to relive the glories of both the Doria family and of the Republic itself.
The large sixteenth-century building is surrounded by a large scenic Italian garden overlooking the sea which once directly connected to the port.
The museum's rooms hold wonderful works of art, resulting from commissions by members of the family who lived for centuries in this superb 16th-century Villa.
Andrea Doria established a kind of Renaissance court which included such first-rate artists as Girolamo da Treviso, il Beccafumi, Silvio Corsini. To Perin del Vaga, a pupil of Raffaello and a leading figure of the art scene in Rome in the years preceding the Sack of Rome (1527), was commissioned the decoration of some interiors.
Andrea's heir, Giovanni Andrea I Doria, added new works of art to the Palazzo, which was extended to twice its original size. The Villa was subsequently home for nearly five centuries to successive generations of the Doria Pamphilj family, who amassed paintings, tapestries and fine furniture within its splendid sixteenth-century rooms.
The masterpieces preserved at the Villa del Principe include both works of art and the buildings interior and exterior decoration.
Among the interior decoration are frescoes by Perin del Vaga, pupil of Raffaello, which represent one of the most important cycles of Renaissance painting in northern Italy, including his masterpiece the Fall of the Giants.
The beautiful Italian garden is dominated by the monumental Fountain of Neptune, work of the great Florentine Renaissance sculptor Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli.
Among the works on display, the Portrait of Andrea Doria painted by Sebastiano del Piombo and many tapestries, which include two exceptional 15th-century works featuring Stories of Alexander the Great and the series of the Battle of Lepanto.
Royal Palace of Genoa
Genoa’s Royal Palace is one of the most beautiful buildings in Italy. An extraordinary construction which has preserved its interiors intact, complete with original furniture, superb furnishings, the finest works of art.
The collections of the house-museum includes reminders of the noble families who built and lived there, furnishing and renovating it over the centuries. The original owners, the Balbi, were responsible for the acquisition of seventeenth-century masterpieces which are still present in the sumptuous rooms of the Grand Piano Nobile; many subsequent developments are thanks to the Durazzo, enlightened patrons who rendered the palace magnificent in the eighteenth century; while the final changes by which it became a royal palace is due to the Savoia, the history of the transformation of the building is still fully legible today.
As rarely happens, the residence passed from one patrician family to another, surviving wars and, managing to preserve centuries of history. The great paintings including masterpieces by Veronese and Van Dyck, but also the furnishings with precious pieces of cabinetry, bear witness to the lives of its ancient owners.
But not only: the visit, today as in the past for those embarked on the Grand Tour, is also a journey into the history of the city and its wealth, presenting proof of how it was transformed into beauty: the Gallery of Mirrors tells of the infallible taste of the Genoese, of their cosmopolitanism, of the close and intense relationships with markets, residences and artists from the rest of Europe.
The visit to the interiors - with its collections of sculptures, paintings, marbles and precious fabrics, gilded wood and crystal chandeliers - and of the exteriors - the hanging garden and terraces - the visitor lives both grand or more intimate atmospheres and enjoys unforgettable views of the port.
Paintings, sculptures, tapestries and precious furnishings including furniture, porcelain and silver, accompany the visitor as they discover the magnificence of one of the most significant and emblematic buildings of the city. Among the great names, for paintings, those of Veronese, Tintoretto, Rubens , Van Dyck and Luca Giordano; for sculpture Filippo Parodi and Francesco Maria Schiaffino.
In addition to the works, the decoration of the rooms deserves special attention: from the vaults frescoed by Genoese baroque masters ranging from Valerio Castello and Giovanni Battista Carlone, to the opulence of the following century, from the scenography of the Galleria degli Specchi to the frescoes by Domenico Parodi.
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Mauro Reggiani (Monantola, 1897 - Milano, 1980)
1935, olio su tela incollata su tavola, cm. 53x85
Contemporary Art Museum of Villa Croce
Il Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce rimane chiuso al pubblico, a partire da venerdì 3 gennaio 2025 e fino a data da destinarsi, per consentire la realizzazione dei lavori relativi alla rimozione delle barriere fisiche nell'ambito di un progetto finanziato con fondi del PNRR.
In the beautiful setting of this 19th-century villa, surrounded by a large park in the residential district of Carignano and overlooking the sea, sits Contemporary Art Museum Villa Croce. When it was inaugurated on February 2, 1985, it was the second most important museum of its kind in Italy and it immediately became a reference point for contemporary art in Genoa.
The museum's collections consist of over 4,000 works - paintings, drawings, sculptures - which document modern and contemporary art from the 1930s onwards. Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, Bruno Munari, Osvaldo Licini, Ben Vautier are just some of the leading figures present in the collection. The collection is largely held in storage and displayed periodically as part of the Museum’s exhibition programmes.
The collections are constantly evolving thanks to numerous donations and acquisitions.
The museum presents an important annual program of exhibitions and events that keep the museum alive and in touch with the contemporary, national and international art world, offering food for thought and comparisons with some of the protagonists of art in Liguria.
The museum's rich collection consists of over 4,000 works.
The original core of the collection comes from the collection of Maria Cernuschi, with 200 works that testify to the Italian abstract movement and includes protagonists such as Osvaldo Licini, the experiments of Lucio Fontana and Bruno Munari, the optical-perceptive and preconceptual research, documented with an important "Achrome" by Piero Manzoni and the experimentation of artists such as Paolo Icaro. The same trends can also be found elsewhere in the collection such as the LAB (Laboratorio della Bassa Lunigiana) donated in 2001, with extraordinary works such as the large sculpture "Nature wounded" by Gunther Uecker.
Since the end of the 1980s, this patrimony has been enriched thanks to gallery owners and artists who have been protagonists of the most important Ligurian artistic efforts from the second post-war period to today. The most recent acquisitions mainly concerned contemporary works coming from dedicated projects created specifically for the museum spaces such as the wall drawing by Ben Vautier or the interventions by Flavio Favelli and Plamen Dejanoff in the room with a fireplace on the ground floor, which demonstrates the close relationship between museum and artists, an aspect which is central to the activity carried out at Villa Croce.
The Museum is not currently accessible to those with limited mobility.
This website allows everyone to get to know it and its collections through a virtual visit.
The park of Villa Croce is fully accessible and offers the opportunity to experience a green space in the heart of the city.
TICKETS
Individual Ticket Contemporary Art Museum of Villa Croce
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reduced price 3 €
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In case of particular events or temporary exhibitions ticket prices are subject to change.
Booking online (presale 1 €)
For complaints and returns download this form
In case of impossibility to visit the museum, you can request a refund of the entrance tickets (single, full or reduced, cards), including those purchased online. The refund request must be submitted within 15 days of the outage using this form.
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Tabaccheria Giarelli - Via Paolo Giacometti 58/60 R 16143 Genova
Tabaccheria Tredici Bis di Galli Fabrizio - Piazzale Parenzo 23/R 16139 Genova
Museum of the Genoa Cricket and Football Club
The Genoa Museum is dedicated to the history of Genoa Cricket and Football Club, the oldest in Italy. The museum was inaugurated on 5th June 2009 by the Genoa 1893 Foundation and was first based in the headquarters of the historic Genoese newspaper "Il Lavoro", directed by Sandro Pertini, and, since 2013, in the 16th-century building of San Giobatta, in the setting of the Porto Antico, which in addition to the rooms of the museum also houses a covered garden.
A thematic and chronological path, which combines sport, culture and society. Interactive and multimedia solutions offer a whirlwind of emotions, including over 500 memorabilia, trophies, documents and photographs, through two centuries of history.
The Genoa Museum has among its objectives the increase, care and enhancement of the historical and cultural heritage of the oldest club in Italy. This initiative has filled some gaps in the past, such as the dispersion of historically important documents and materials. For this reason, a work of research, retrieval and acquisition of objects, relics and videos that have been lost over time was carried out, to restore them and make them accessible to the public.
The museum of Genoa is a fascinating place, with one of the most important collections in the panorama of Italian football.
The history of Genoa Cricket and Football Club is a universe of memory that through photographs, documents, films and direct testimonies, continues to passionately tell his story and the history of Italian football.
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