Museums of Friuli Venezia Giulia

Trieste - Museums

Civico Museo "Revoltella" e Galleria d'Arte Moderna

The museum was founded in 1872 by Baron Pasquale Revoltella. The venue of the museum is located in the palace of the same name and became the property of the city after the death of the Baron. Inside there are not only works by Revoltella, but also works by different artists, such as Carlo Carrà, Domenico Induno and many others, which the municipality acquired thanks to the donation that the baron himself had made to the city.

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Civico Museo di Storia ed Arte - Orto Lapidario

The Civic Museum originated in the nineteenth century with the intent of collecting the ancient material, preserves epigraphs, monuments and sculptures of the Roman, Medieval and Modern times and later it was enriched with private donations of artifacts from different civilizations.

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Civico Museo del Castello di S. Giusto

The castle of San Giusto is one of the symbols of Trieste, and was built on the hill of San Giusto. The castle was built before the middle of 1200. Before the castle, a defensive tower stood on the hill, which in 1309 was rebuilt, by the Venetians, as a fortress called the “Captain's House”. It is called this way since the commander of the occupying army resided there.

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Acquario Marino

The Aquarius was inaugurated about 80 years ago, in the building that previously served as a fish market. Inside there were several species of marine fauna (e.g. rings, crustaceans and numerous fish) and the famous pair of penguins from South Africa, who lived for almost 31 years. On the first floor we find a vivarium that contains some species of freshwater: reptiles, amphibians and fish.

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Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale

The Friulian Museum of Natural History was founded in 1866 by Giulio Andrea Pirona. The collection contains documents of great scientific importance. In addition, there is also a library that supports 45,000 unpublished titles in Natural Sciences. Currently, the Museum is closed for reasons of restoration.

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Museo della Civiltà Contadina nel Friuli Imperiale

The Museum of Peasant Civilization of Friuli Imperiale in Aiello del Friuli is located at the restored agricultural business center. It has four different eras from the 18th to the 20th century. The museum also owns examples of the environment of the rural house from 1500 until 1918. Among the different objects you can see more than 20,000 original items divided into 30 thematic sections.

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Rocca di Monfalcone

The Fortress of Monfalcone was built around 490 AD by Theodoric, the king of the Ostrogoths. Over the years the fortress was damaged several times by the Turks. By the end of the 16th century, the building lost its defensive role and was abandoned for a long time, until 1955 when restoration work began. Since 1968 it has been home to the Paleontological Museum.

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Museo Etnografico del Friuli

Located at Palazzo Giacomelli and became the seat of an important collection of materials related to popular traditions, customs and rites that have distinguished the region for centuries.

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Museo del Duomo

The Museum of the Cathedral of Udine is dedicated to the Patriarch Blessed Bertrando of Saint Geniès. Inside, you can admire frescoes depicting St. Nicholas of Bari.

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Civici Musei e Galleria d'Arte Antica

The Museum has been based in the Castle since 1906. Inside it houses the works of the greatest artists of the eighteenth century, such as those of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, the works of which occupy an entire room. The museum also houses other galleries and museums.

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Galleria d'Arte Moderna

The Modern Art Gallery is located in a 16th-century building. The building was donated to the City Council by Dante Cavazzini. The gallery was founded in 1885 by the wish of Antonio Marangoni. In the building there are works of Italian art from the nineteenth century. The gallery supports 4000 works: paintings, sculptures and drawings by great artists.

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Collezione Etnografica

The year the Ethnographic Collection was founded in 1993. The structure collects various objects that are divided by specificity: kitchen, bedroom, kit, crafts, such as woodworking, etc. The Collection is located inside an eighteenth-century house . Spinning and weaving are presented in a special section of the same.

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Museo Diocesano e Galleria del Tiepolo

The Diocesan Museum and Galleries of Tiepolo was founded in 1963 by Mgr. Giuseppe Zaffonato. The first venue of the museum was the basement of the Archbishop's Seminary of the city. Later, it was transferred to the Patriarchal Palace due to the 1976 earthquake. The goal of the museum is to safeguard and enhance the ecclesiastical cultural values of the archdiocese. The collection houses about 700 works, among which there are also frescoes by Giambattista Tiepolo. From 29 April 1995 the Museum has been open to the public.

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Civico Museo Storico

The Historical Civic Museum is located in the Palazzo Trevisan and is located in the historic center of the city of Palmanova. It houses and exhibits precious collections of drawings, weapons and documents that in chronological order tell of the founding of the city coming up to the First World War.

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Civico Museo di Storia Naturale

The Civic Museum of Natural History was inaugurated in 2010, although the original structure has been standing since 1846. Inside it collects collections of zoology, botany, paleontology, mycology, numerous testimonies and naturalistic research. It was managed by technical and specialized professors: Koch, Stenta, Mezzena and many more.

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Museo Teatrale "Carlo Schmidl"

The opening of the Theatrical Museum dates back to 1924. Inside the Museum we find a vast collection of musical materials dating back to the 800: photos, memorabilia, booklets, autographs and numerous other testimonies of Trieste's cultural life. Today the museum is located in the Gopcevich Palace and is open to the public.

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Museo Sveviano

The Swabian Museum in Trieste is dedicated to Aron Hector Schmitz, otherwise known as Italo Svevo who became famous after the publication of his novel “The Consciousness of Zeno”. Before his success, he lived a normal life as a bank clerk. Many of the objects left were destroyed during the bombings of 1945. The Museum keeps letters to family members and other writers, the gold pen given by his wife, plays, photographs, his violin.

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Civico Museo d'Arte Orientale

The Museum, located on the Palazzetto Leo, was opened in 2001. For its opening, a series of restorations of the building of eighteenth-century origins was carried out. Inside it houses a large collection of oriental objects and elements, divided under the certain categories. It is currently open to the public every day of the week.

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Museo della Comunità Ebraica "Carlo e Vera Wagner"

The Museum of the Jewish Community “Carlo and Vera Wagner” in Trieste is located in the former building of the Jewish Agency. The building was very important for Jewish immigration that descended from northeast Europe to the Israeli state. The Museum was precisely created to protect this Jewish passage. Inside the building, you can also see very important documents from Jewish history, you can admire the section dedicated to the Triestinians who fell during the Shoah and further documents that made the story.

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Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica

The works, made between the end of the fifteenth and nineteenth, are of the Venetian , the Lombard, the Ligurian, the Emilian, the Florentine, the Roman and the Neapolitan school. Among these, a deposed Christ attributed to Gianlorenzo Bernini.

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Civico Museo di Storia Patria

The National History Museum was reopened in 2007, after a period of renovation that also made the fabric room open. The Museum was donated to the Civic Museums of History and Art in 1952, who took care of the arrangement of the rooms. The works of art and also the objects on display tell the rich and complex history of Trieste.

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Civico Museo di Guerra per la Pace "D. de Henriquez"

The Civic Museum of War for Peace "Diego de Henriquez” presents visitors numerous objects from Diego de Henriquez's studio in Trieste. Inside there is also a library, a military, civil and cartographic archive.

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Civico Museo della Risiera di S. Sabba

The mansion was built at the beginning of the 20th century, and was initially used by the Nazis as a prison camp. Inside, a series of murders happened in the most monstrous ways, including a crematorium as well. Since 1975, after a deep restoration by R. Boico, the building became the seat of the Civic Museum of the Risiera di S. Sabba.

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Civico Museo Sartorio

The Civic Museum Sartorio is located in Trieste, a short distance from the museum of natural history. It houses antique furnishings and objects, ceramics, library, collections of paintings, drawings by Giambattista Tiepolo and a gypsoteca - gliptoteca. The Sartorio Civic Museum was founded by the homonymous family and the official partial opening dates back in 1949. The museum, together with its furnishings, was donated to the City Council by the last heir of the family.

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Museo Ferroviario

The opening of the Trieste Railway Museum Campo Marzio dates back to 8 March 1984. The rooms have been restored giving perfectly the idea of the work that was done in the railway. A room is also dedicated to trams, today no longer in use. On the tracks, you can see steam locomotives, an electric locomotive and a diesel. In the theaters there are also often several exhibitions of a historical character and it was also chosen as a set for several films.

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Museo della Casa Carsica

The Museum of the Karst House is located inside a rustic house that owes its current appearance to the works carried out in 1831. It consists of a stone slabs roof, characteristic of the Karst and is furnished with objects and furniture donated by the inhabitants of the area.

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Museo Etnografico di Servola

The museum preserves and tells, thanks to the objects preserved inside it, the ancient history of Servola, especially on the production of bread. In fact, there are ancient objects that were used in the preparation of bread, among them the rolling pin and the scale. There are also irons, clothes and costumes both male and female.

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Civico Museo "Morpurgo"

The museum intended to preserve documents, memorabilia, paintings, prints on history and city folklore, was reopened in December 2000, thanks to the magnificent intervention of the Costantinides family, with the creation of the fabric room and the renovation of the artistic collection of the Greek Socrates Stavropulos (Trieste 1882-Zurich 1960), donated to the Civic Museums of History and Art in 1952, arranged by himself originally in the halls of the museum and integrated on several occasions until death.

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Museo Storico del Castello di Miramare

Historical Museum of Trieste built in 1955 the Miramare Castle, offers the combination of different styles from Gothic to Medieval to Renaissance. The most important rooms of the museum are: the Sala Novara, which was the office of Massimiliano d'Habsburg, the Library with more than 7,000 nineteenth-century volumes of history, art, literature, geography and botany, the Hall Historical frescoed with episodes from the history of Grignano and the Music Room. The Museum is open to the public through a pre-established path.

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Civico Museo del Mare

The Museum of the Sea of Trieste was founded in 1904, tells the historical development of the Trieste marineria and the evolution of navigation instruments. Inside the first floor, you can admire models of ancient ships and nautical instruments of the Teresian nautical school, mainly from the 19th century. On the second floor, the history of steam marine. In the other rooms you can see photos and prints of the marine subjects, models of the port of Trieste and nautical charts. You can visit the fishing rooms that display boats and gear in use in the Adriatic.

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Lapidario Tergestino

The new Lapidary Tergestino was inaugurated on 4 April 2001 at the headquarters of the Lalio Bastion of the Castle of San Giusto. The Roman stone materials, exposed since the mid-nineteenth century outdoors in the garden of the Lapidary Garden, had undergone progressive degradation caused by the weather. To ensure proper preservation, most of the artifacts from Trieste were moved to the environments of the Lalio Bastion.

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Museo Speleologico

The Speleological Museum dates back to 1963. For reasons of restoration, it was exposed to the custody of the Regional Directorate for Cultural and Landscape Heritage of Friuli Venezia Giulia. The museum supports exhibitions, archaeological and speleological materials that belong to the Bronze Age.

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Museo Carnico delle Arti Popolari "M. Gortani"

The Carnic Museum of Popular Arts “M. Gortani” is located inside the Palazzo Campeis. The collection exists thanks to the great research work carried out since 1920 by Professor Michele Cortani. The exhibition includes ethnographic material dating from the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, with particular attention to the traditions of Carnia.

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Museo Civico delle Scienze

The Science Museum is located at Palazzo Amalteo, a sixteenth-century building. In the different sections, you can admire the rich prehistoric collections, the zoological collections in the bird room, the model of mammoth and woolly rhino. The insect sections, about 9000 examples, is also the most complete collection of minerals of Alpe Adria.

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Museo Civico d'Arte

The Museum was officially inaugurated in October 1972, inside it we find: civic collections and works of art donated by different collectors or by the same artists. In the rooms of the Palace we can see the most important works of art of the Museum including drawings, frescoes, sculptures, furniture, goldsmith objects and ceramics created from the Middle Ages to the present day.

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Museo Diocesano

The museum is located at the “Diocesan Centre for Pastoral Activities” which was built in 1988 by the architect Otmar Barth. The museum was opened to the public in 1995 and contains collections from the diocesan territory. In the museum there are about 700 works of art, namely paintings, sculptures, devotional objects and much more. These works are organized into sections according to a chronological itinerary.

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Museo della Miniera

The Mine Museum was born thanks to the will of many Friulian miners who, after returning home from the mines of Belgium, decided to establish a Museum where the memories of the difficult work they do. The Museum therefore houses a large number of materials coming from the Roton mine where they worked for a long time.

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Museo Civico "F. De Rocco"

The “F. De Rocco” Civic Museum is located in the municipality of San Vito al Tagliamento and is located in the Raimonda Tower. The museum supports archaeological collections concerning prehistoric and protohistorical materials. The visit to the museum is of particular interest for fans of the history of San Vitese art.

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Museo Provinciale della Vita Contadina

The Provincial Museum of Peasant Life is located in the municipality of San Vito al Tagliamento. Here, mainly objects and documents of peasant civilization are exhibited. The museum was divided into eleven rooms. The peculiarity of the museum lies in the collections of objects for children, for the processing of the land and in the means of transport. the structure also includes two offices dedicated to the craft works of wood and of iron.

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Antiquarium dell'Acquedotto Romano

The Antiquarium is set up in the place where between 1976 and 1977 the remains of the Roman aqueduct coming from the Rosandra Valley, dating back to the first century AD were found. In the Antiquarium you can see a segment of the channel and one of the five inspection wells on the vault of the pipeline, as well as the archaeological material found between the excavations. Upstream of the aqueduct, the remains of a Roman villa were also identified.

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Museo di Storia e Arte

The Museum of History and Art of Gorizia reproduces the family city environment and the typical artisan shops and shows the traditional cuisine and the equipment used during the war, the laboratory of carpentry and the silversmith's shop. Among the objects found are also the locks for chests, doors and doors, padlocks, latches manufactured in Gorizia itself or in its suburbs between the 16th and 19th centuries. On the first floor there is a well-known Art Gallery with works of the '500.

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Museo Provinciale Palazzo Attems

The Palazzo Attems provincal Museum dates back to the 18th century. It was built in 1745 by the architect Nicolò Pacassi. After deep restorations, the palace hosts major exhibitions. Palazzo Attems is located in Piazza De Amicis and stands inside the municipality of Gorizia. The entire building is a rich historical and artistic heritage of Italian culture. The Attems Palace was decorated with several frescoes from the 18th century.

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Musei Provinciali: Collezione Archeologica

The archaeological part of the Provincial Museum of Gorizia exhibits a very rich collection of objects excavated in the last two centuries. These are historical testimonies of the city: lithic artifacts, metal artifacts, iron weapons, and numerous ancient documents. It's the perfect place for all history fans.

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Musei Provinciali: Museo della Moda e delle Arti Applicate

The Museum of Fashion and Applied Arts includes the section of silk processing, jewelry and also craftsmanship linked to clothing with the most precious gowns with spindled lace of 1672. To be emphasized, the collections of handbags and gloves from the period 1700-1925. Not to be forgotten, the part dedicated to the artisanal production of 17th century glass and ceramics.

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Fondazione Palazzo Coronini Cronberg Onlus

The foundation was created in 1990, at the desire of Guglielmo Coronini Cronberg expressed in his will. Inside there is a large collection of objects and personal documents of the nobleman: prints, jewelry, silver, medals, clothes and numerous other collections well maintained by William and his family. Today the Palazzo Coronini, owned by the family, has become a museum, which exposes a wide range of cultural and historical heritage.

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Museo Lapidario del Duomo di S. Eufemia

The Lapidary Museum of the Cathedral of S. Eufemia is located in the complex of the homonymous basilica. Inside it exhibits finds that date back to Roman and early Christian times and there are also inscriptions, some parts of very ancient sarcophagi. The convenience of visiting the lapidary lies in the fact that you can also see other important monuments.

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Museo Paleontologico della Rocca

The Paleontological Museum of the Rocca was conceived in 1968 by the Speleological Group Amici del Fante. It was inaugurated in 1970 with nine windows, which later arrived at 18. Inside it we find the rooms of the temporary exhibition, the speleological-geopaleontological library and also the laboratory where the paleontology - geological of the whole world was studied. The materials of the speleological room belong to about 85 million years ago.

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Science Centre Immaginario Scientifico

The Science Centre Imaginario Scientific is located in the municipality of Trieste. It is the second museum of this kind in Italy, after the “City of Science” the museum of Naples. It was created in 1985 and was inaugurated in 1986. Part of the museum served as an experimentation venue at the International Center for Theoretical Physics. Today you can visit it, as it is open to the public.

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Museo Sartorio

Housed in the eighteenth-century villa of the wealthy family Sartorio from San Remo. Part of the I floor and of the II retain original furnishings, paintings, books, miscellaneous items. At the II floor the valuable collection of drawings by Tiepolo

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Museo Civico Archeologico Iulium Carnicum

The Iulium Carnicum Civic Archaeological Museum was founded in 1995. It is located in the beautiful Palazzo Leschiutta which is owned by the Municipality. All the objects that we can observe in it today come from the ancient Iulium Carnicum. The materials are exposed in different floors following a division into sections. This institute, very important for the ancient city culture, is part of the Museum Network of the Province of Udine and Carnia Museums.

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Museo Civico (Museo dell'Arte e della Civiltà Contadina)

The Museum was established in 1981 by the Municipality that collected objects and documents from the citizens of the area. It is a large collection of materials dating back to the 19th century: everyday objects, means of work, typical clothing of the area and numerous other testimonies of Andreis's past. Through the Museum you can retrace the entire history of the city: the most famous crafts, traditions, gastronomy and all aspects of peasant life. The building is open to the public.

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Museo Nazionale Paleocristiano

The Museum is located inside a facility that dates back to the fourth century. It is a great collection of objects and documentations of a religious nature and of very ancient origin. All the elements are well maintained and arranged on three floors and offer the opportunity to retrace the history of the development of Christianity. All interested parties can visit it and have the opportunity to breathe the atmosphere of a basilica typical of the fourteenth century.

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Museo Archeologico Medievale

The museum was created to make known the daily life of the castles of the feudal era (X-15th century). It gives us an overview of that life and the most varied elements concerning the latter. The structure has a rare defensive masonry that can be chronologically assigned to the 13th and 14th centuries.

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Museo della Casa Carnica

The Carnica House Museum is a small ethnographic museum, created thanks to the donation of Dorina Bruseschi, its owner. The Museum offers the opportunity to admire a typical architecture of the bourgeois Carnica house from the 17th and 18th centuries. On the first floor there is the fireplace while on the upper floor you can admire the bedroom and study of Battista Bruseschi.

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Donazione “Sambo”

Donation that the daughter of the painter Edgardo Sambo made to the city of Trieste, consisting of portraits painted by her father, a picture of Ugo Flumiani and a bronze bust of Teodoro Russo.

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Pinacoteca d'Arte Antica

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