Villa Centurione Doria - Pegli Maritime Museum

Villa Centurione Doria hosted for several years the Maritime Museum of Pegli; currently is closed to the public, because we are working to make itself a secure place and to plan new activities to be shared with visitors in sight of a future reopening. 

The Renaissance villa was built, in successive stages starting from the beginning of the sixteenth century, in a charming place which was and still is Pegli (a beautiful neighborhood of Genoa). The buyer of the villa was Adamo Centurione Oltremarino, merchant and wealthy financier of the sixteenth-century, a great friend and adviser of the famous admiral Andrea Doria.

Visitors can admire precious maps, paintings, drawings, ship models, construction and navigation tools, and “visit” the old shipyards and workshops of the maritime world. Of great significance are the stories of work culture of Ligurian sailors and shipwrights.

In recent years, the museum has established itself as a veritable cultural arena for the west of Genoa, a meeting place for Associations offering a rich program of art exhibitions, as well as cultural and social events.

The villa is part of the Mu.MA Maritime and Migration Museums, together with the Galata Maritime Museum, the Museum of the lighthouse “La Lanterna” and the Commenda di Prè that house the new MEI – National Museum of Italian Migration.