Museums of Umbria

Assisi - Museums

Museo del Tesoro della basilica di San Francesco

The museum houses 56 paintings from the F.M. Perkins collection. Its collections are the most important in all of Italy; we find them divided into two rooms, in which we find paintings, manuscripts, sculptures, ceramics.

Perugia - Museums

Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria

The gallery documents the development of the painting in Umbria from Medieval to modern age, encompassing many masterpieces from the  XIII to the XVIII century. Among the masters represented are Arnolfo di Cambio, Duccio di Boninsegna, BeatoAngelico.

Terni - Museums

Museo Archeologico

All the findings from excavations in the city have been exposed here. Particularly interesting is the exhibition of findings from the Iron Age, found in the necropolis.

Spoleto - Museums

Museo Archeologico Nazionale

The National Archaeological Museum was opened in 1985 at the former monastery of Santa Agata. Recently, the museum was renovated. It presents the formation of the urban center of Spoleto from the first human presence. The Museum occupies two floors of the former monastery and also owns the theater built in the first century BC.

Perugia - Museums

Museo Archeologico Nazionale dell'Umbria

It is located in the former convent of S. Domenico and has two sections: a prehistoric one and an Etruscan and Roman one. Here is one of the longest Etruscan texts, engraved on a block of travertine of the  III-II century B.C.: the "stone of Perugia”.

Perugia - Museums

Museo Storico Perugina

The Museum was built in 1997 and is located inside the San Sisto plant. In the gallery, you can see the machinery used in confectionery production, a series of classic packages used in the market, over the decades, of Perugina. In the museum there are two television stations, one with films from the 1930s — '50s and the other showing the Perugina commercials of recent years. The tasting of the products and visiting the factory are free of charge.

Trevi - Museums

Museo della Civiltà dell' Ulivo

The Museum of Civilization of the Olive Tree is located at the former convent of St. Francis. It is the first public museum dedicated to oil and olive trees in Europe. The exhibition offers the opportunity to read news about the olive tree from a historical, botanical, and agronomic point of view.

Trevi - Museums

Raccolta d' Arte di S. Francesco

The Art Collection of San Francesco is located inside the former convent of San Francesco. It was opened in October 1996. The collection includes paintings, sculptures, drawings, memorabilia and archaeological finds. It is part of the City Museum Circuit together with the Museum of Civilization of the Olive Tree which is located in the same place.

Terni - Museums

Pinacoteca Comunale "O.Metelli"

The Municipal Art Gallery “O. Metelli” is currently based in the eighteenth-century Palazzo Gazzoli. Divided into four sections (ancient, contemporary, O. Metelli and Aurelio De Felice Museum), it occupies about 1200 square meters and is inspired by a modern style that goes well with contemporary works of art and creates a pleasant contrast with the ancient ones, rationally exploiting the spaces and highlighting the peculiarity of each individual work.

Terni - Museums

Mostra Permanente di Paleontologia

The Museum of Paleontology is located inside the former Church of San Tommaso. Here are a wide range of fossils found in southern Umbria during a geological period. There are about 300 fossils on display. An important piece of the collection is that of micromammals which is the most complete collection in Italy from the Pleistocene Age. In recent times, the remains of a Pliocene cetaceus have been purchased. It is currently open to the public.

Narni - Museums

museo della città di Narni - Palazzo Eroli

Palazzo Eroli, rich noble residence in Narni, is also a perfect setting for temporary exhibitions by combining the Museum collection.Among the most interesting works we can admire: the “Crowning of the Virgin” by Domenico Ghirlandaio and the “Annunciation” by Benozzo Gozzoli, the Egyptian Mummy with its wooden sarcophagus decorated and finally the bronze Cup of the fountain in the main square.Place of reading, relaxing and tasting is "CaffEroli" at the coffee bar inside the Museum. A large indoor room is stocked with an extensive bookshop, a reading section and a children's corner.

Bevagna - Museums

Museo Comunale di Bevagna

The Municipal Museum of Bevagna was inaugurated in 1996. It welcomes materials and exhibits from the surrounding territory that tell the history of the city and its development between the 16th and 18th centuries. The core of the primary works comes from the storage of ecclesiastical goods decided by the Italian State in 1860. The Museum exhibits significant works such as the Cassa del Blessed Giacomo and the Altarpiece of Ciccoli.

Corciano - Museums

Raccolta Paleontologica

Pietralunga - Museums

Museo Ornitologico Naturalistico "S. Bambini"

The Ornithological Naturalistic Museum “S. Bambini” is located in the former barracks of Candeleto's forest guards. The core of the collection originates from the collections of Silvio Bambini, to which the Museum is dedicated. The exhibition includes a large collection of birds of prey, passeracean, waterfowl and mammals that are placed in special windows.

Spello - Museums

Pinacoteca Civica

The Civic Art Gallery is located since 1994 in the Palazzo dei Canonici, in the historic center. The collection of the art gallery was born in 1914 from the collections of works from the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore. The route is divided into seven rooms arranged in chronological order.

Todi - Museums

Pinacoteca e Museo di Todi

The Museum of Todi is located inside the Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo. The Capitano Palace is located in Piazza del Popolo and dates back to 1280. The Museum was established in 1871. Inside it houses a collection of objects and works of ancient art. It is currently open to all interested in history and art.

Todi - Museums

Museo della Civiltà Contadina

The Peasant Museum of Todi was founded in 1987 by Tersiglio Foglietti as a dedication to his son who died prematurely. The Museum presents works of rural everyday life, until 1950. It shows typical environments of peasant houses, antique furnishings and utensils, lamps and lanterns to make the idea of life in those days.

Torgiano - Museums

Museo del Vino

The Wine Museum was opened to the public in 1974 and is now run by the Lungarotti Foundation. It is based in Torgiano, in the agricultural pars of the monumental Palazzo Graziani-Baglioni, a noble summer residence of the 17th century.

Tuoro sul Trasimeno - Museums

Centro di documentazione permanente su Annibale e la battaglia del Trasimeno

The Centre, inaugurated in the early months of 1996, brings together a permanent exhibition on the subject of Hannibal and the various theories about the Battle of Trasimeno.By utilising the various stopping-places along the route, it is possible to identify the areas where the confrontation took place, and to visit the "ustrina", the huge pits which Hannibal had dug to burn the corpses.

Foligno - Museums

Pinacoteca Comunale

The Municipal Art Gallery of Foligno is the most important museum in Foligno and is located at the Palazzo Trinci. The Art Gallery has 8 rooms in which the works of different artists are exhibited, the best known in the period of the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is divided into 3 sections, that of the '300, the '400, of the '500.

Foligno - Museums

Museo Archeologico Comunale

The Municipal Archaeological Museum is located in the center of Foligno, in Piazza della Repubblica. It is located in the Palazzo Trinci, inside which are located the Pinacoteca, the Museum of the Municipal Institution, the Multimedia Museum of Rides and Tournaments and the Archaeological Museum. It currently houses a large collection of works, a hundred paintings, sculptures and a collection of ancient and modern art. The Museum is open to everyone.

Foligno - Museums

Esposizione Archeologica sui Plestini Umbri

The archaeological exhibition of the Umbrian Plestini is the first nucleus of the State Archaeological Museum of Colfiorito. The data collected testify to a great vitality of the Plestine area, documented from the early Iron Age until the early Middle Ages, other finds come from recent surface research and excavations in the fulginate territory. Among the materials on display are objects from sanctuaries, religious and commercial centers of the territory and rich funeral kits.

Gubbio - Museums

Museo Civico

The Civic Museum of Gubbio is located at the Palazzo dei Consoli. The Museum is composed of the archaeological fraction of paintings and ceramics. In this hamlet, located in the Salon dell'Arengo, you can admire finds from excavations made around the Roman Theatre of the nineteenth century. In the former chapel, on the other hand, the 7 Eugubine plates of 1456 are kept. The plates written in the Umbrian alphabet are called 'paleoumbre', those written with the Latin alphabet are called 'neoumbre'.

Gubbio - Museums

Museo della Maiolica a lustro Torre di Porta Romana

The Museum of Luster Majolica in the Tower of Porta Romana, also known as Sant'Agostino, was named in this way thanks to the fresco located at the entrance of the Roman Gate. The Roman tower dates back to 1400, and is about 25 m high. In the Museum there is the nineteenth-century fresco of Sant'Agostino, which can be admired in all its beauty and splendor. The museum is open to the public at set times.

Spoleto - Museums

Museo del Tessuto e del Costume

In the rooms of Palazzo Rosari Spada there are many artifacts from various collections that represent a cross-section of the history of fabric and costume between the fourteenth and twentieth centuries.

Spoleto - Museums

Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna

It is located in the historic center of Spoleto and is housed in the Collicola Palace. The museum was opened in 2000. A lively museum, an active contemporary art hub, houses on the first floor the legacy of Giovanni Carandente and the works of the Spoleto Prize, while on the second floor there are contemporary exhibitions. Do not miss the visit to the library, the legacy of Giovanni Carandente, which preserves more than 20 thousand volumes of contemporary art.

Spoleto - Museums

Laboratorio di Scienze della Terra

A point of interest of the municipality of Spoleto is represented by the Laboratory of Earth Sciences, created by an important and well-known nineteenth-century collection, geopaleontological by Count Francesco Toni. It is an educational and scientific museum. The geopaleontological collection was proposed to the public between 1867 and 1892 and includes about 6000 minerals, rocks and fossils.

Spoleto - Museums

Museo Diocesano

The Museum was inaugurated in the 1970s at the Archbishop's Palace. The works are exhibited chronologically in the rooms dedicated to thematic consideration. The living rooms are adorned with doors of the '500. The first news dates back to the 10th century. The interior with three naves is divided by columns with reuse capitals, coming from classical and early medieval buildings, while the 13th century marble altar is carved with refined bas-reliefs.

Spoleto - Museums

Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive - Museo Carandente

The museum's collection originated with the Spoleto Prize, an artistic competition designed to promote the birth of a permanent collection of contemporary art, thanks also to the important contribution of the critic Giovanni Carandente.

Assisi - Museums

Museo di San Pietro

This museum was built in the 10th century. It is known for the Crypt with the sarcophagus of San Vittorio and the Sacello of Relics. Also noteworthy is the well of the martyrs companions of San Vittorino, the underground passage that connected the ancient fund to the Benedictine hospital, and the Romanesque architecture used to build the building.

Assisi - Museums

Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea

In order to document various iconographic depictions of Christ, in contemporary art, Fr Giovanni Rossi designed and created the Gallery. The museum was inaugurated in 1951 and is part of the Umbrian ecclesiastical museum network. Inside, you can admire numerous photographs of both ancient and contemporary works of art.

Assisi - Museums

Museo degli Indios dell'Amazzonia

The Amazon Indian Museum is the first missionary multimedia museum in the world. It was inaugurated in Christmas 1972 with material coming from the mission of the Umbrian Capuchin friars minor in the Alto Solimóes in the Amazon (Brazil), with the aim of promoting a culture almost to the antipodes from the Western one.

Perugia - Museums

Museo Capitolare di San Lorenzo

This is the museum of the treasure of the cathedral of Perugia, which containsvestments, liturgical objects and a large art gallery with paintings dating from the XII to the XIX century by Perugino, Bartolomeo Caporali, Luca Signorelli, Andrea Vanni,Giannicola di Paolo.

Perugia - Museums

Palazzo della Penna

Built on the ruins of the Roman Amphitheatre, it consists of 80 rooms decorated withpaintings of the '600 and '700 and in 2011 it will become home to the Museum of Modern Art. Featuring works by Perugino and Gerardo  Dottori and six blackboards of Joseph Beuys.

Perugia - Museums

Museo dell'Accademia di Belle Arti di Perugia

The Academy of Fine Arts is located in Perugia and was founded, in 1573, as the Academy of Drawing. The museum was divided into three sections: in the first we find the Gessi Gallery, in the second the gallery of paintings, in the third the Cabinet of Drawings and Prints. The rich heritage was born not only thanks to the donations of institutions and individuals, but also thanks to the works of academics.

Perugia - Museums

Gipsoteca Greca, Etrusca e Romana

The museum offers its visitors the reproduction of the most famous Greek and Roman monuments. The Etruscan archaeology is presented by the casts of the Sarcophagus of the Spouses and the Arringator. The visit of the museum is very interesting because it offers the opportunity to learn about the most significant examples of ancient art.

Perugia - Museums

Collegio della Mercanzia

The headquarters of the Noble College of Mercanzia is located in the original nucleus of the Palazzo dei Priori in Perugia and still presents itself with the facilities of the fourteenth century. The existence of the institution has been documented since 1218 and is linked to that of the free Medieval Commune. The museum offers the service of guided tours and a ticket price accessible to everyone.

Gubbio - Museums

Palazzo Ducale

It was built after 1470 by Federico da Montefeltro. The building inside has frescoes from the 14th century and wall decorations by artists from the 80s and 90s. The large rooms were open for the parties of the most famous characters of the time. The exterior of the building consists of two buildings connected by a courtyard. The building was sold to individuals who put all the items for sale. In doing so, they scattered in different museums around the world.

Perugia - Museums

Ipogeo dei Volumni

It 's a family tomb of the Etruscan family Velina (in Latin Volumni), dating back to the II century BC . The grave was dug deep into the ground, has a plant similar to the Roman house and is full of urns full of bas-relief decorations.

Perugia - Museums

Perugia Officina per la Scienza e la Tecnologia

This museum was opened for educational purposes, to bring the younger generations closer to science and technological development. The spaces of the Municipal Workshop and Car Park were used, to create the P.OS.T. The sections are different, all to be experienced, such as the classroom of sound, color and acoustic and optical illusions.

Foligno - Museums

Museo Diocesano e Capitolare di Foligno

The museum houses a rich collection on Christian history, and inside there are beautiful works of artists such as: Cristoforo Roncalli, Bartolomeo di Tommaso, Cesare Permei and others.

Nocera Umbra - Museums

Museo civico

Within St. Francis, with archaeological finds from Roman times, sculptures, paintings (among the most significant ones by Matteo da Gualdo) and paintings.

Perugia - Museums

Museo Aerospaziale Monte di Apollo

The the museum of located at Perugia Madonna Alta and documents the early experience in the aerospace field with works at art , produced by RAI, and panels ofspatial and aeronautics content. Among the exhibits the model of Apollo 11.

Sigillo - Museums

Raccolta Comunale

The museum is located in the Palazzo Comunale and exhibits to the public a collection of 175 works. Among the preserved works we find paintings and sketches in paper material, donated to the City Council by the painter Anton Pietro Valente, between 1920 and 1970.

Trevi - Museums

Trevi Flash Art Museum

The Trevi Flash Art Museum is held in the Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary. Many contemporary works are housed in this Museum. The gallery can be visited at any time, even outside opening hours, but only by reservation.

Gubbio - Museums

Museo Diocesano

The Diocesan Museum exhibits the history of the Eugubin Diocese through art collections, paintings and sculptures of the fourteenth century. Inside, the archaeological section offers its own testimony of the Roman and early medieval times from the 7th century before Christ until classical times.

Gubbio - Museums

Raccolta d'Arte del Convento di S. Francesco

The Church of San Francesco dates back to the second half of the thirteenth century and is divided into three naves separated by octagonal columns. Inside the Church are worth mentioning the frescoes of the chapel, attributed to Ottaviano Nelli. Today, the complex of the Church and Convent of San Francesco are home to the Art Collection of the Convent of San Francesco, with works of goldsmiths, sacred vestments, paintings and archaeological finds.

Norcia - Museums

Museo Civico Diocesano "La Castellina"

The Civic and Diocesan Museum “La Castellina”, built in 1967, after a long period of closure, was reopened in 1996 as a permanent exhibition. This is based in the main floor of La Castellina, a fortress built in 1554 on a project by Jacopo Barozzi, by the will of Pope Giulio III. The museum itinerary is divided into three sections: the Collection of the Civic and Diocesan Museum, which brings together works of art owned by ecclesiastical or municipal, dating from the twelfth and eighteenth centuries, the Collection Massenzi and the Permanent Archaeological Exhibition “Leave for the Afterlife”.

Assisi - Museums

Pinacoteca Comunale

The Art Gallery is housed in the Palazzo Vallemani which was built in the 17th century. It is composed of a rich collection of paintings and frescoes from the 14th-17th centuries. A large space has been dedicated to the artists of the Giottesque school, among whom we can name Andrea and Tiberio of Assisi, Puccio Capanna, and Dono Doni. It is worth mentioning the Madonna in Majesty by Giotto and a Virgin with the Child of Perugino who are present in the Art Gallery and who are among the most visited.

Assisi - Museums

Foro Romano e Collezione Archeologica

It is located in the most central area of Assisi, where were the main medieval buildings and where today is the temple of Minerva. The path that must be taken to admire this museum is called “Journey to the ancient square of Assisi” and begins with the so-called central terrace, which is a monumental construction built in the 2nd century BC. , and ends in the former crypt of San Nicolò, home to most of the epigraphs and urns found in the city.

Assisi - Museums

Museo della Cattedrale e cripta di S. Rufino

Assisi - Museums

Museo della Porziuncola

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Museo di Scienza della Terra

via della misericordia, ospedale degli infermi poveri 1 - San Gemini

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Raccolta Archeologica

via s. monica, scuola elementare snc - Scheggia

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Museo di Palazzo Camilli

corso vittorio emanuele snc - Nocera Umbra

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Piccolo Antiquarium

via mazzini, ex palazzo comunale snc - Fossato di Vico