Museums Bologne

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Museo dell'Assistenza Infermieristica

The museum displays various kinds of witnesses concerning the evolution of the '700 nursing to the present day.

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Mambo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna

MAMbo is visual culture and experimentation available to young contemporaries. MAMbo tracks with its permanent collection the history of contemporary Italian and international art.

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Pinacoteca Nazionale

Located in the same historic building that houses the Academy of Fine Arts.It offers a broad overview of Emilian painting from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century,with works by Carracci,Giotto,Vitale da Bologna,Raphael,Guido Reni,Parmigianino.

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Galleria d'Arte Moderna

Headquarters of the Galleria d'Arte Moderna Institute in Bologna, also known as MAMbo, set up inside the restored former bread oven, which with its 9500 square meters of exhibition traces art from post-war years to this day.

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Museo Ebraico

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Museo Civico Archeologico

Inside Palazzo Galvani, the Museum is the merger of the University Museum and the Municipal Museum in the archaeological field. The University Museum transferred the collection of antiques by Luigi Ferdinando Marsili, the Egyptian ones by Ulysses Aldrovandi and Ferdinando Cospi; the Municipality instead gave away the findings of the Etruscan tombs, the Palagio Pelagi collection, and private donations from citizens.

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Museo Aldovrandi

The collection of 'natural things' by Ulysses Aldrovandi, which reaches 18,000 units and 7,000 species of dried plants, as well as its encyclopedia in 13 volumes on 'Natural History', and the 14 personal cabinets and Pinacoteche, since 1617, had been preserved in the Palazzo Pubblico where they remained until 1742, when they were transferred to Palazzo Poggi.

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Museo Civico del Risorgimento

Established in 1893 to inculcate the values of the municipality to all citizens, set up on the ground floor of Casa Carducci, looks at the story that goes from 1796, the year of the arrival of the French in Bologna, until the first World War, with the eyes of the city of Bologna.

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MAGI '900 - Museo delle eccellenze artistiche e storiche

The entrepreneur and collector Pietro Bargellini, in Pieve di Cento, producing a careful restoration of ancient silos for the storage of wheat, inaugurated in 2000 this museum with 4000 square meters on six floors. It is a very important private collection of over 2000 works carefully selected by the owner.

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Museo Apistico

The museum inside the CRA, preserves a huge number of tools, tools, wooden models of apiaries typical of the various Italian agricultural areas, hives of the nineteenth and twentieth century. Since 2008, the Center has also preserved the library of Oddo Marinelli, a lawyer and a beekeeping enthusiast, who has collected more than 800 volumes in the sector, so much so that his collection made the room pick up that it houses the name of 'bee room'.

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Museo delle Navi e delle Antiche Carte Geografiche

Inside Palazzo Poggi, among the many Museums and Libraries, the Museum of Ships houses naval models of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with relative geographical maps. Very special are the wall papers engraved on copper and richly decorated with allegories, human figures and animals.

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Museo degli Studenti e della Goliardia

The Alma Mater, the oldest university in Europe, the first headquarters of the student university, organized within it this Museum that wants to retrace the path of the history of the student world, through 23 windows, 18 monitors, paintings, sculptures, books, illuminated codes, newspapers. It also owns a database containing all graduates from 1380 to 2005 to the present day.

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Museo Paleontologico

The Museum was founded in the 19th century in a former hospital clinic from Bologna. After several renovations and renovations, today's headquarters was inaugurated in 2003, divided into 4 main sections: the area where the fossil finds are kept; the Whale and Elephant Hall; Hall of the Whales and Elephants; birds and ichthyosaurs; room of the diplodocus, a 26-meter dinosaur.

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Museo Storico Didattico della Tappezzeria

Cavalier Vittorio Zironi, master tapestries, decided to found this museum in Bologna. Initially aimed at upholstery fabrics, it began to evolve also to the clothes of clothing, ceremonial dresses, sacred vestments. The restoration of Villa Spada allowed the installation on the three floors of the villa by dividing the exhibition conceptually by type.

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Museo Mille Voci e Mille Suoni

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Specola e Museo di Astronomia

Specola is an eighteenth-century tower of Palazzo Poggi, from which astronomical observations were carried out between the '700 and 800. Today, the Museum is set up in the tower, and there are also the Department of Astronomy and the Observatory. The Museum collects above all the instruments used for observations at the time as well as numerous curious objects.

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Museo della preistoria "Luigi Donini"

In San Lazzaro di Savena, the Museum opens its windows to prehistory, its settings and the first human populations. Organized on 500 square meters of area, the museum is divided into thematic areas, offers fossil and archaeological finds, as well as life-size dioramic reconstructions.

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Museo del Patrimonio Industriale

Along the Navile, in the former Galotti furnace where from 1887 bricks with Hoffman oven were produced, since 1990 a museum has been set up with a ground floor that illustrates the history of technical education between the 1800s and '900; on the first floor we move “From excellence to the future” with contemporary technologies; on the second floor the history of Bolognese production from the fourteenth century to the present day.

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Museo Civico Medievale

Inside the Palazzo Ghisilardi- Fava, the Museum has been housed since 1985. It preserves the testimonies of the Middle Ages city from artisan artifacts to the bronze foil statue of Boniface VIII as well as the collections of bronzetti, such as the splendid Neptune by Giambologna. The museum closes an interesting collection of weapons, ivories and glasses, as well as numerous illuminated codes.

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Collezioni Comunali d'Arte

In the Palazzo Comunale, where once were the apartments of the Cardinals Legati, a permanent exhibition is set up today founded in 1936, which preserves the collections of Pelagio Palagi, artist and collector, but also collections of private families and assets of religious institutions suppressed throughout history.

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Museo di Zoologia

Part of the University Museums, you can find ornithological collections, dioramas and trophies of Africa on the ground floor. Upstairs the Altobelli collection of reptiles, amphibians and mammals, as well as the most important animal groups. The most substantial donation comes from the Aldrovandi, Cospi and Marsili collections, that is, the initial one.

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Museo Morandi

The museum, housed in Palazzo d'Accursio, consists of 250 works including 61 paintings, 18 watercolors, 88 drawings, 79 etchings and two sculptures, there also is a reconstruction of Morandi's studio with a small collection of ancient art.

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Museo Ducati

In a spectacular setting, here is a collection of memorabilia that have marked the history of Ducati, founded in 1926, among which: the "Puppy" of the '40s, up to the new four-valve engine that has made Ducati win the Superbike championship.

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Museo dello Studio del Nono Centenario

At Palazzo Poggi, the Museum of the Study of the 9th Centenary, tells 900 years of history of the University of Bologna through 3 different moments: “Rooms of Time”; the “Aleph” two objects, the first one that brings back to the commemoration of the 9th Centenary of the University, the second that refers to its symbolic places; “The Chamber of the Ark” indicating the transition to science and knowledge.

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Museo Marsiliano

The Marsilian Museum is based in the University Library of Bologna and was established in 1930, the year of the second centenary of the death of Luigi Ferdinando Marsili. In fact, among the rooms of the Museum we find an equestrian portrait of Marsili by Calza and Zanchi. The Museum exhibits Marsilian materials and manuscripts related to the studies of the Bolognese scientist.

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Museo Civico d'Arte Industriale E Galleria Davia Bargellini

The collection includes paintings, crafts and witnesses Bolognese designed to evoke an eighteenth-century aristocratic residence, among the paintings, the famous "Madonna of the teeth" from Vitale da Bologna.

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Museo Storico del Soldatino "M. Massacesi"

via toscana, villa mazzacorati 19 - Bologne

In the beautiful Villa Aldrovandi — Mazzacorati, this very curious exhibition of miniature soldiers is presented, executed with every type of material: from wood, to stucco, to paper, to lead, to tin. The soldiers who belonged to Giacomo Leopardi of colored cardboard are also kept.

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Museo Ostetrico "G. A. Galli"

via zamboni, museo di palazzo poggi, università degli studi - Bologne

Palazzo Poggi houses among its rooms this important museum, dating back to the '700. In those years, Dr. Giovan Antonio Galli decided to found the Museum, to facilitate the knowledge of midwives and doctors. The collection includes life-size wax models and anatomical reproductions of the uterus during pregnancy.

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Museo di Anatomia Umana Normale

via zamboni, università degli studi di bologna - Bologne

Palazzo Poggi, houses this Museum with exhibition of wax models, which arises from the need to compensate for the lack of corpses for anatomical study. Lelli, on behalf of the Pontiff Benedict XIV, began to produce wax models in 700 and after him worked on this project the surgeon Anna Morandi.

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Museo di Antropologia

via selmi,università di bologna - Bologne

It belongs to the University Museums. Skeletons and skulls of the Italian populations are collected and catalogued divided by era of belonging from the Neolithic to the 18th century. A 'yurt' is also on display, a typical Kazakhstan dwelling, mobile and complete with interior furnishings.

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Museo di Architettura Militare

via zamboni, museo di palazzo poggi, università di bologna 3 - Bologne

Palazzo Poggi hosts a section dedicated to fortification projects conceived by the most important European strategists. The reproductions of fortresses, strongholds, defensive structures, painted on wood, are an important help to learn about the urban planning of the city over the various centuries. Another room hosts the models and projects of new artillery tools, executed by Marsili.

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Museo di Mineralogia e Petrografia "L. Bombicci"

piazza porta di san donato snc - Bologne

Part of the University Museums, was founded in 1860, collecting the collection delivered to Professor Luigi Bombicci. Currently, the Museum has 50,000 pieces, having enriched itself with further donations that took place, over time, and with exchanges with other precious collections.

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Museo di S. Stefano

via santo stefano, basilica di s. stefano 24 - Bologne

At the Church of Santo Stefano, at the end of the 19th century, the Museum was born after careful restoration, with the aim of giving proper relevance and accommodation, to all the sacred objects that could not have been able to find a place in the new building. The Museum is on the ground floor in the old sacristy adjacent to the Cloister.

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Museo di Anatomia Comparata

via selmi, dip. di biologia evoluzionistica sperimentale - Bologne

At the University Museum Alma Mater Studiorum, there is this precious collection of instruments such as microscopes, syringes of the most varied sizes, microtomes, which were used to produce preparations to be injected into the circulatory or histological system of mammalian nerve endings. Some models can also be touched.

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Donazione Putti e Raccolta Rizzoli Codivilla

via pupilli,istituti ortopedici rizzoli, biblioteca 1 - Bologne

Within the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institutes, these two precious libraries of a medical and scientific nature are housed. The first consists of instruments collected by the eminent orthopedist Vittorio Putti, which start from Roman times until 800, as well as numerous ancient manuscripts and incunabula. The second collects the texts selected by Dr. Rizzoli in life, who titled his collection to the first Italian orthopedic doctor, Codivilla.

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Museo di Fisica

via irnerio, dipartimento di fisica, università di bologna 4 - Bologne

The rooms dedicated to Physics in Palazzo Poggii boast the donations of Marsili, which concerned instrumentation suitable for astronomical and biological measurement, were followed by the patronage of the Pontiff Benedict XIV, who had numerous lenses for telescopes and microscopes.

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Museo di S. Petronio

piazza galvani, basilica di s. petronio 5 - Bologne

In 1894, Tito Azzolini, inside the Basilica of San Petronio in Piazza Maggiore, brought together all the objects of goldsmiths, musical editions, sacred furnishings, finely illuminated gradual, and all the projects and preparatory drawings and models for the execution of the new facade of the Basilica of San Petronio.

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Museo di Anatomia Patologica "C. Taruffi"

via irnerio 48 - Bologne

Within the Bologna University Museum System, SMA, this interesting permanent exhibition is preserved. The collection by Dr. C.Taruffi, consists of natural skeletons, or even reconstructions of malformed skeletons in wax, of different individuals, who had congenital malformations.

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Museo di Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande

via castiglione 7 - Bologne

Count Odoardo Pepoli in 600, had his palace built according to the project of Towers and Albertoni. The rooms of the palace richly adorned with frescoes of the '600 and '700, host one of the most important collections in the city, that of the works of Quadreria Zambeccari. In 1883 the collection was purchased by the Pinacoteca Regia. In addition to this prestigious collection, works of Flemish and Byzantine art are also exhibited.

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Museo di Ronzano

via gaibola, eremo di ronzano 18 - Bologne

Near the homonymous hermitage, on a hill near that of the Guardia. At the Hermitage of Ronzano there is a Museum Archive, where personal paper documents of Giosuè Carducci have been preserved, donated to the Hermitage by Titti Carducci.

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Museo di S. Domenico

piazza s. domenico, basilica di s. domenico 13 - Bologne

The Museum is inside the Basilica of San Domenico, between the choir and the sacristy. It was set up from 1956 by the prior of the time and inaugurated the same year. Consisting of two rooms it preserves important works of Italian painting from 300 to 700. There are also precious breviaries from the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries, including that of St. Thomas Aquinas.

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Museo di S. Giuseppe

via bellinzona, convento di s. giuseppe 6 - Bologne

Within the homonymous Convent of the Order of Capuchins, the Museum began to take shape from 1928, when Father Leonardo Montalti, began to collect the goods of the monasteries of Bologna and province in one place.