Museums and galleries

FREE MUSEUMS IN MANTUA: A CHEAP VISIT TO THE CITY OF THE GONZAGA FAMILY Free museum in Mantua. Mantua offers a lot of chances to visit it without spending a lot of money. Mantua is a small and pretty city you can reach using public transport (I got there by train), as I wrote in […]

MUSEUMS IN MANTUA Museums in Mantua. You can’t visit Mantua without entering the museums containing the remnants of its long history made up of interesting events. I wrote a post with all the useful information to visit Mantua where I suggest that you should buy the MantovaCard, which represents the pass key to the city. […]

5 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT PIAZZA DUOMO (CATHEDRAL SQUARE) IN MILAN Piazza Duomo (Cathedral square) is the heart of Milan, and it is dominated by the majestic cathedral of the archdiocese which is the symbol of the capital of Lombardy as well the symbol of Italy: Milan Cathedral. The cathedral facade is the representation of […]

THE BAGATTI VALSECCHI MUSEUM: A HOUSE MUSEUM IN THE CENTRE OF MILAN The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum. Some time ago I was in Milan, walking along via Montenapoleone at a fast pace, in order to reach the subway stop, because I had an appointment. I had walked along this street dozens of times, but on that […]

LED LIGHTS: LED LIGHTING IN MUSEUMS Led lights. Lighting in a suitable way a museum and works it houses has always been a complex matter. On the one hand a good lighting allows the visitor to enjoy a satisfying visit on all counts; on the other hand the kind of light chosen may eventually damage […]

CANOVA IN VENICE: CANOVA AT THE GALLERIE DELL’ACCADEMIA IN VENICE Canova in Venice. One of the greatest novelties of the new tour of the exhibition at the Gallerie dell’Accademia, which I have recently described in a special post dedicated to the new rooms set in the Palladian Wing, is the exhibition of the works by […]

THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM IN VENICE: THE PEGGY GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION Guggenheim Venice. In 1948 Peggy Guggenheim was invited to exhibit her art collection at the first Venice Biennale arranged after World War II. Cubist, Abstract, and Surrealist artworks, and works by contemporary artists such as Pollock and Mark Rothko were exhibited for the first time in […]

Things to know about the Louvre Museum Louvre Museum. The Louvre Museum is the most important museum in Europe and the most visited in the world. A week wouldn’t be enough to visit the whole museum, so if you go to Paris I’ll suggest that you should dedicate a whole day to visit this museum. […]

List of the most visited museums in the world and in Italy in 2015 Most visited museums. The list of 10 most visited museums in the world has arrived on time even this year. The ninth annual edition of the list compiled by il Giornale dell’arte and The Art Newspaper shows a crisis in European cultural tourism, […]

  THE PALLADIAN WING AT THE GALLERIE DELL’ACCADEMIA Gallerie Accademia Venice. The Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice is the seat of one of the most interesting museums in Venice. The complex of the Gallerie dell’Accademia, hosting a very rich art collection of Venetian paintings from Veneto as well, consists of the ancient church of Santa Maria […]

5 things to know about Sforza Castle in Milan The first construction was erected around 1368, when Galeazzo II Visconti decided to build the “Castrum Porte Iovis”, a fortress on the area nearby a gate in Roman walls, Porta Giove. It is square in shape with 4 square towers at the corners that allowed an […]

On Sunday at the natural history museum of Venice Natural History Museum of Venice. There are some museums I have always wanted to visit, but I haven’t visited yet, and there are still in my things-to-do-slowly-list. Among them there’s the Natural History Museum of Venice, which I had the chance the visit on a Sunday […]

San Domenico museum in Forlì. Forlì is not a place of transit, and you have to go there for a reason, and I always go to Forlì to see the exhibitions arranged at the San Domenico museum. The San Domenico museum are a set of museums in the heart of the city and it is […]

Church of Santa Maria Antiqua. Reopened to the public in March 2016, the Church of Santa Maria Antiqua in Rome was discovered in 1900 within the Roman Forum. It’s an inestimable treasure, closed for restorations since 1980s. Built in the 6th century in the Roman Forum on the ruins of the Palace of Domitian, buried under rubble […]

  On Sunday at the museum: the museo Correr in Venice Museo Correr Venice. This month “On Sunday at the museum” is dedicated to the Museo Correr, which, through its rich art collection, is capable of illustrating the thousand-year old history of Venice. The museum originated from the collection belonged to the Venetian nobleman Teodoro […]

  5 things to know about Scrovegni Chapel (Cappella degli Scrovegni) The Scrovegni Chapel was consecrated on 25 March 1305 as a chapel-oratory dedicated to Santa Maria della Carità. It is one of the most beautiful masterpieces by Giotto, the father of the Italian art. 5 things to know about Scrovegni Chapel

Cerralbo Museum, Madrid Cerralbo Museum is the ancient residence of Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa, collector and marquis of Cerralbo. The marquis had a great passion for art, and he collected paintings, a lot of items, and he promoted a lot of archaeological excavations. From the beginning the palace was built in order to be […]

MUNDA ( National Museum of Abruzzo) reopens National Museum of Abruzzo. On 6th April 2009 an earthquake destroyed Aquila, capital of Abruzzo region. Now, after six years from that day and after three years of work, the National Museum of Abruzzo reopens. It houses more than one hundred of the most outstanding pieces of art from […]

ON SUNDAY AT THE MUSEUM: Civic Museum Agli Eremitani, Palazzo Zuckermann and a peek inside the Basilica of Saint Anthony in Padua City Museums Padua. As you already know, each first Sunday of each month I talk about a visit to a museum, but this time I choose to immerge myself in a city I […]

On sunday at the museum:  the Doria Pamphilj Gallery Doria Pamphilj Gallery in Rome. I’ve been very busy lately, and owing to the new release of my blog, I haven’t got any time to publish my posts about “On Sunday at the museum”. I truly care about this topic: I have the chance to present and […]