MUSEO DEL VETRO E DELL’ARTE

MUSEO DEL VETRO E DELL’ARTE VETRARIA IN ALTARE

Up until the twelfth century, Altare was famous for the skill of its glassmakers, whose popularity and reputation were on a par with those of Murano all over Europe. «Altare means Glass,» and therefore craftsmanship, art and culture: a heritage of priceless value to be preserved, defended and displayed with pride. While the ancient traditions are kept alive in a number of workshops, the activity of promotion and cultural research is entrusted to the Istituto per lo Studio del Vetro e dell’Arte Vetraria, which more..

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MUSEO «MANLIO TRUCCO» -ALBISOLA

The Museo Civico della Ceramica «Manlio Trucco» in Albisola Superiore houses and displays collections of locally-made antique pottery, from Savona and Albisola. They include a group of around forty majolica pharmacy vessels with blue monochrome decorations, dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, on loan from the administration of the Civil Hospitals of Genoa. Another bequest consists of a collection of around eighty pots, dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including eighteenth-century majolica ware from Savona with anthropomorphic more..

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PINACOTECA CIVICA OF SAVONA

fortress the Pinacoteca Civica of Savona presents a broad perspective of art in Savona from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. The collection is organized on a chronological basis that follows the development of the schools represented. In the sections devoted to painting we find some examples of the Tuscan art of the fourteenth century, followed by Ligurian and Lombard artists of the fifteenth. Outstanding among these is the Crucifixion by Donato de’ Bardi, the earliest example of a painting on canvas in Italy. The works of other Lombard artists, such as more..

TREASURY OF THE SHRINE OF NOSTRA

The museum of the Treasury of the Shrine of Nostra Signora della Misericordia is housed in the Palazzetto del Duca, built in the vicinity of the Shrine immediately after the miraculous apparition. It was set up in 1959 by the Fine Arts Service of Liguria and has recently undergone a restoration that has made it more functional. It contains extensive collections of liturgical silverware and church vestments and ornaments of various kinds, built up through bequests and donations. Some of these are extremely interesting, such as the Ecce Homo, a polychrome wooden bust more..

COLLECTIONS OF THE PRIAMÀR -SAVONA

The civic museums of Savona are located in the monumental complex of the Priamàr fortress. The ground floor of the Loggia del Castello Nuovo houses the Museo Archeologico, displaying finds that cover a span of time from the Middle Bronze Age, the period of the earliest frequentation of the Priamàr hill by the Ligures Sabazi, to the nineteenth century. The layout of the museum is a highly suggestive one: its fusion of the exhibition space and the archeological site allows visitors to follow the age-old history of the hill in close contact with the pottery, metal and more..

CIVIC ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM

The civic archeological museum of Finale Ligure is housed in the convent of Santa Caterina. It is divided into five rooms, with collections ranging from the geology of the Quaternary period up to the Middle Ages and the Modern Age. In the first section we find a reconstruction of the Finale region from the geological viewpoint, showing the most interesting rock formations and morphological phenomena. This is followed by fossils and examples of «Finale stone,» a type of limestone dating from the Tertiary period. After a review of the karst phenomena and caves in the more..

ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM

ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM “DON CESARE QUEIROLO” - VADO LIGURE

In the Roman era Vada Sabatia, the old name for the present-day town of Vado Ligure, was of considerable importance, both politically as the seat of a Municipium and economically, in its role as a trade emporium. An echo of the splendor of Roman times still reverberates through the rooms of the Archeological Museum dedicated to Don Cesare Queirolo, the curious figure of a priest-cum- archeologist who carried out a great deal of research in the Vado area in the second half of the nineteenth century, more..

CIVICA PINACOTECA

CIVICA PINACOTECA DI VILLA GROPPALLO - VADO LIGURE

In 1982 the commune of Vado Ligure inaugurated a cultural center in the eighteenth-century residence of the De Mari family, which includes a library and an art gallery. The latter is divided into several different sections: one of these is devoted to the works of sculpture and painting that won the competition for artists called the «Premio Vado,» which was held by the commune for the first time in 1951, at the urging of the Provincial Guild of Painters and Sculptors. Another section houses a selection of the more..

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF ALASSIO

The Museo di Scienze Naturali «Don Bosco» in Alassio is split up into a large number of sections. The zoological one, with its butterfly collection, is the most fascinating: here the visitor can admire the golden eagle, various species of duck, stork, albatross and humming bird and a marvelous specimen of the quetzal in its rich ornithological collection. The icthyological section presents examples of the gulf’s most significant marine life, while a wide range of local medicinal herbs can be seen in the botanical section. more..

THE MUSEUMS OF ALBENGA

Visit the museums of Albenga to discover the origins of the Ligurian civilization. The Civico Museo Ingauno also gives you the opportunity to admire the Palazzo Vecchio del Comune, with its loggia decorated with a large fifteenth-century fresco of the Crucifixion in which Roman, medieval and Byzantine marble carvings and a mosaic floor from the first century AD are on display. The Sala dei Consoli, with its massive frescoed groin vault, houses epigraphs and sculptures from the ancient Roman town of Albingaunum, while the large and austere reception room on the second more..

MUSEUM OF THE TOWER CLOCK

MUSEUM OF THE TOWER CLOCK «G.B. BERGALLO» (TOVO SAN GIACOMO)- The Museum of the Tower Clock is housed in the former Town Hall of Tovo San Giacomo, in the ward of Bardino Nuovo. The museum contains examples of clocks produced by the Fabbrica Artigiana Bergallo, run by a family of clockmakers since 1860, and sets out to preserve and display not only complete clocks but also their components, such as mechanisms, wheels and hands. The majority of the clocks made by the Bergallo family can still be seen on the fronts of town halls and noble houses and on the bell more..

MUSEUM OF THE OLIVE

MUSEUM OF THE OLIVE AND OF PEASANT CULTURE - ARNASCO - The Museum of the Olive and of Peasant Culture houses documents dating from the seventeenth century testifying to the presence of the prized Pignola variety of olive in the Arnasco region. Since time immemorial the local population, employed chiefly in agriculture, has made it the center of their rural activities. Within a short space of time, in fact, the cultivation of olives became so vital and important that it constituted the area’s principal resource. The «Arnasca,» an olive with the savor of more..