Loggia delle Rovine - Palazzo Rosso

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affresco

Diana (part. della Loggia delle Rovine)

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Museo dei Capuccini - Chiesa di Santa Caterina da Genova

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Museo dei Capuccini - Chiesa di Santa Caterina da Genova

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The Turboship Andrea Doria

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Museum section

The Historical Archive of the Municipality of Genoa

The Historical Archive of the Municipality of Genoa, based in Palazzo Ducale, preserves the documents relating to the administration of the city between the 15th and mid-20th centuries and holds a collection of manuscripts dating to the 14th–19th centuries.
The archive houses the permanent exhibition titled Amole, libbre, cannelle, dedicated to the historical collection of weights and units of measurement which were used in the city before the final introduction of the metric system in 1805.

 

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The oldest part of the collection is made up of the funds of the Magistracies responsible under the Republic of Genoa for the administration and provision of the city: the Fathers of the Municipality, the Censors, the Abundance and the Provisori del vino.

Furthermore, a collection of manuscripts relating to the history of Genoa (XV-XVIII), the documents of the Capitanato di Voltri (XVI-XVIII), a curious collection of autographs (XVI-XX), the archives of the Municipalities annexed to Genoa in 1926, the archives of the Brignole Sale and De Ferrari families.

DocSAI Center

The Documentation Center for History, Art and Image (DOCSAI) is not widely known, but it is a place where visitors can discover and examine the history of our city and region through thousands of images and  books (both modern and precious antique modern volumes).

It is a public place of cultural interest which includes: the Topographic and Cartographic Collection, the Photographic Archive and the Art History Library of the Municipality of Genoa.

It is open to the public by appointment to offer more focused consultations or guided tour. It is located in Palazzo Rosso Annexes. The access to the building is located in Via ai Quattro Canti di san Francesco, where a typically late-medieval entrance and an exceptional wooden coffered ceiling of the mid-fifteenth century, with its original polychrome painting decoration, will receive the visitors who enter the Art History Library, the most important of Liguria. 

On the upper floor there are the Topographic and Cartographic Collections: 8.000 images, including prints, watercolors, paintings and projects. In the end, the Photographic Archive includes more than 220.000 images representing the artistic, economic and social life in Genoa from the second half of the nineteenth century to the '60s.

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To understand the vastness and heterogeneity of the works preserved at the Documentation Center for History, Art and the Image of Genoa, it is enough to select a few particularly important pieces from those of the Topographical Collection and the DocSAI Photographic Archive .

For example, there are watercolours offering views of the city or designs for an imagined metropolis that was never realized. And, of course, no shortage of scenes from everyday life, rare testimony of how customs in Liguria have changed in the last century as well as many photographs that depict places that have now disappeared or have undergone radical changes.

Musei di Genova MEI National Museum of Italian Emigration

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MEI National Museum of Italian Emigration

The MEI - National Museum of Italian Emigration, housed in the Commenda di San Giovanni di Prè, lies onto 3 floors divided into 16 areas where it is possible to retrace many stories of Italian migration, from the Unification of Italy (and even before) to the present. The museum is in close relationship with Mu.MA  - Maritime and Migrations Museum and, in particular, with the nearby Galata Maritime Museum, which houses the section on transoceanic voyages "Memoria e Migrazioni" (Memory and Migrations) and the section on immigration, "Italiano anch'io".

Genoa is a city with a strong link to emigration: it was from here that millions of Italians left for the Americas, Africa, Asia and Australia. 

The life stories of migrants are told through first-hand sources such as diaries, letters, photographs,  newspapers and archival documents. 

It is an empathetic and interactive museum, where you can "do experience" . See, hear, learn and get involed in the scenic setting of one of the city's oldest medieval buildings, which originally provided hospitality to pilgrims.

 

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Musei di Genova Diocesan Museum

Diocesan Museum

Nestled between the St. Lorenzo Cathedral and Palazzo Ducale, the Diocesan Museum lies in the heart of Genoa: with respect to major thorough fares it is in a side street, via Tommaso Reggio. Entering the Museum you discover an unexpected and surprising building containing precious works of art: a medieval cloister full of frescoes and built on an ancient Roman domus; a wealth of paintings and sculptures, fabrics, illuminated manuscripts, silver, reliquaries, musical instruments and an initial archaeological section, that tell the artistic history of the city.

The building that houses the museum has a complex structure, the result of the numerous developments that have taken place over time: erected as the residence of the Canons of the Cathedral in the second half of the 12th century, in an area which had been used as settlements in Roman times, its many additions have left visible the changes of the following centuries giving us an extremely interesting architectural artefact, in itself a good reason to visit.

A visit to museum follows a chronological sequence over four floors, interspersed with themed rooms, among which, and genuinly unique, is that dedicated to the display of the sixteenth-century The Passion Canvases (depicted on a fabric which is the precursor to jeans).

The collection of the Diocesan Museum is composed primarily of works belonging to churches of the diocese: only a small part has been received through donations or belongs directly to the Museum, which is therefore in charge of their conservation, protection and enhancement.

 

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In the rich museum collection there are works that tell not only the story of how they were created, by whom and for what purpose, that is the data traditionally linked to the understanding of a work of art, but they also allow us see the continuous thread that persists between the distant past and our present.

The Museum includes a unique room that houses The Passion Canvases, on loan from the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities and for Tourism: fourteen large linen cloths dyed with indigo and bearing white lead paintings, they formed an ephemeral apparatus for Week Holy and depict scenes from the Passion of Christ. They are the work of artists from different eras, starting with sixteenth-century masters who were inspired by Dürer's engravings. The material is considered a precursor of the jeans fabric, which, as is well known, was used for the first time in Genoa and owes its name to the city.

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Musei di Genova Museum of the Lighthouse "La Lanterna"

 

 

Museum of the Lighthouse "La Lanterna"

The museum of the lighthouse of Genoa "La Lanterna" is part of the Mu.MA - Maritime and Migration Museums ,together with the Galata Maritime Museum, Pegli Maritime Museum and the Commenda di Prè, home of the MEI National Museum of the Italian Migration.

The Lanterna of Genoa is the symbol of the city, the highest lighthouse in the Mediterranean, second in Europe. 

It has been a tower of signaling and armed guard over the centuries, a stage for tightrope walkers, prison. It was built in its present form in 1543, after the destruction of the old lighthouse in 1514. The first stone of the Lanterna wall was placed in 1626. This 20-km-long wall was completed in 1639, thus becoming the longest city wall in Europe and second in the world, in length, only to the Chinese Wall.

The rock on which it stands is 40 meters high, the tower 77 meters, its summit is therefore 117 meters above sea level. Its rotating optic projects light up to 57 km away.
There are 172 steps to climb to get to the first terrace (the only one that can be visited).

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A visit to the museum of the Lanterna begins with the path that leads to the ancient lighthouse, overlooking the Port of Genoa.

Continue on to the open air museum of the park, which runs adjacent to the seventeenth-century fortifications and the Porta Nuova della Lanterna, the ancient western gateway to Genoa.

At the base of the lighthouse, inside the ancient fortifications is the Museum of the Lanterna, which is currently being updated: in the first rooms, the story of the Lanterna is told; later rooms, known as the "Cannons", house lights and lanterns.

Leaving the museum, continue towards the lighthouse, which visitors have the opportunity to climb its 172 steps to the first panoramic terrace to admire a fascinating and unique 360° view of the city and its port.

 

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