Museums in Genoa
Natural History Museum Giacomo Doria
Da martedì 8 aprile il museo di storia naturale è chiuso per attività di manutenzione della struttura e tutela delle collezioni.
La mostra Serpenti è terminata domenica 6 aprile. Durante il periodo di chiusura continua la programmazione delle attività didattiche, educative e delle conferenze.
Founded in 1867, the Natural History museum is the oldest museum in the city and has an enormously rich scientific collection made up of 4.5 million artefacts and specimens from all over the world: animals, fossils, plants and minerals. 6,000 items are on display, distributed over 23 rooms on two floors.
The ten rooms on the ground floor house the mammalian exhibition while the two central halls, particularly spectacular, are dedicated to Palaeontology and temporary exhibitions. The first floor continues with six rooms dedicated to other Vertebrates: Birds, Reptiles, Amphibians and Fish.
Two rooms are reserved for insects and other invertebrates. The “Cell” room houses a three-dimensional reconstruction of a cell enlarged 100,000 times. The last section of the museum is dedicated to Minerals.
A visit is a journey into the biodiversity of the planet and is ideal for children, teenagers, families and for all nature lovers.
Visiting the Museum, we immerse ourselves in an extraordinary world that crosses time and tells us the stories and adventures of both animals and men; a world populated by animals from the distant past, by specimens linked to the great explorers of the nineteenth century and by species extinct in historical times at the hand of man as well as creatures featured in novels and films.
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Visit route
The Museum has a ramp enabling direct access to the exhibition halls.
The exhibition is based on the ground and first floors, which can be reached via an accessible lift.
Attention: The elevator is currently out of service. We apologize for the inconvenience.
All the rooms of the Museum are free of any architectural barrier.
Accessibility for wheelchair users
A wheelchair is available for use. Please ask a member of staff who will be able to assist.
Toilets
The toilets are accessible on both floors.
Parking
The structure has its own parking service, in via Macaggi 92c red, which can also be used by disabled visitors equipped with a blue badge (art. 12 DPR 503/96); it is necessary that the visitor calls to inform of his arrival.
At 200 meters there is the Park Vittoria with 1100 places.
TICKETS
Notice
Since Tuesday, April 8th, the Natural History Museum is closed for structural maintenance and the preservation of its collections.
The "Serpents" exhibition closed on Sunday, April 6th. During the closure, educational activities, workshops, and conferences will continue as scheduled.
Booking online (presale 1 €)
Individual Ticket: history Museum Giacomo Doria
regular price 5 €
reduced price 3 €
Who is entitled to a reduced ticket
Reduced 2 € for young people aged 18 to 26 year
gratuito
Who can enter for free
In case of particular events or temporary exhibitions ticket prices are subject to change.
Booking online (presale 1 €).
For complaints and returns download this form
In case of impossibility to visit the museum, you can request a refund of the entrance tickets (single, full or reduced, cards), including those purchased online. The refund request must be submitted within 15 days of the outage using this form.
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Treasure Museum of St. Lorenzo Cathedral
The Museum is housed in medieval underground rooms, specifically the crypt of the St. Lorenzo Cathedral, which were carefully modified by the architect Franco Albini in 1956, to create a unique example of modern museography. The atmospheric space offers a veritable treasure trove of medieval, Renaissance and Baroque gold and silverware.
The objects can be divided into three categories: religious relics and the containers in which they are held, that is reliquaries; secondly, objects and works of art related to the veneration of St. John the Baptist, proclaimed patron of Genoa in 1327; and finally liturgical furnishings made or donated to the cathedral over the centuries and used in the most important religious ceremonies.
Among the most famous pieces there is the so-called Sacro Catino, wrapped in mystery and legend: tradition would have it that it is the Holy Grail, the dish used by Jesus Christ during the Last Supper. It was thought that the green glass was actually precious emerald!
Treasure Museum of St. Lorenzo Cathedral is a modest collection, but boasts a good number of items that are truly exceptional in terms of their rarity and preciousness.
Among the works that deserve special mention there is first of all the Sacred “Catino” (a shallow bowl or plate), once believed to be made of emerald, but is in fact an exceptional example of Middle Eastern glassware; then the Cross of the Zacharias, an ornate crucifix in which a relic of the true Cross is set. Among the works related to the veneration of St. John the Baptist is the so-called Plate of St John the Baptist and the extraordinary processional “ark” used to house his ashes.
Among the liturgical furnishigs, the magnificent processional Ark of Corpus Domini, the large altar frontal called of the Corpus Domini, and the statue of the Immacolata, all works entirely in silver and of remarkable size, a fact which adds to their value.
TICKETS
Individual Ticket
whole: €5
reduced: €4
cumulative 2 museums (Treasury Museum + Diocesan Museum): €10
groups of more than 10 people, over 65s, students: €4
For complaints and returns download this form
In case of impossibility to visit the museum, you can request a refund of the entrance tickets (single, full or reduced, cards), including those purchased online. The refund request must be submitted within 15 days of the outage using this form.
St. Augustine - Towards a new museum
The Museum of Sant'Agostino is entering a new phase, the third, of its life. Inaugurated in 1939 as the Museum of Ligurian Architecture and Sculpture, heavily damaged by the war, and reopened in 1984 in the spaces designed by Franco Albini and Franca Helg, the museum now requires significant works.
These interventions – whose project is presented in the ticket office spaces – include the complete replacement of the large windows, structural and plant adaptation, the creation of new spaces for reception, and a renewed museum arrangement. In this accessible and updated museum, the thousands of works dating from Antiquity to the 19th century, which constitute the heritage of Sant'Agostino and, in a sense, the monumental archive of the city, will be enhanced to the fullest. The planned works will continue in the coming months; however, starting from theYear of Medieval Genoa, the Sant'Agostino complex has reopened, offering, in the spaces of the triangular cloister and the church, a selection of the most significant medieval pieces from the museum. In the largest preserved Gothic church in the city, a panorama of the multifaceted reality of medieval Genoa will be offered, when a peripheral center of Northern Italy became one of the greatest powers in the Mediterranean.
With the opening of the Museum's deposits to the public, thousands of artifacts are made accessible thanks to a monthly program of guided tours. Inside, the remains of city monuments such as fragments of the Church of San Silvestro, those of the Church of Santa Maria in Passione, the Janus of Gian Giacomo and Guglielmo della Porta from the small temple in Piazza Sarzano are preserved. Additionally, a large part of the main altar of Saints James and Philip, the Madonna from the shrine on Paganini's house in Via Madre di Dio, as well as a substantial collection of corbels featuring monstrous figures, evidence of the high-quality private architecture in Genoa between the 16th and 17th centuries, are also housed there.
Although the museum contains a wide variety of objects - sculpture, painting and applied arts artifacts – it was created and designed to house works of sculpture. Natural light, in Franco Albini's brilliant design, brings out of the carved stone ever changing and surprising aspects, not only with the change of the seasons, but even the time of the day. The Museums greatest treasure is a sculpture: what remains of the sepulchral monument of the great fourteenth-century master Giovanni Pisano that the emperor Henry VII commissioned in memory of his young wife Margaret of Brabant who died and was buried in Genoa.
Over the course of its history, more than three decades, the museum's collection has been transformed, enriching itself with other evocative artefacts from churches and monasteries that, sadly, no longer exist, as is the case with the frescoes or altarpieces. However, there is also a painting section with paintings on wood from the Middle Ages to the early Renaissance. Among the works of applied art, the admirable Assunta in ivory, various ceramics, and the precious Pallium of San Lorenzo, a unique piece also due to its dimensions (almost three metres), both its origins and history are known.
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Visiting route
Accessible ticket office.
Along the route, inside the triangular cloister, the immersive room is partially accessible to the sensory disabled.
The exhibition route in the church is accessible from the door on Piazza Sarzano, behind the church itself.
Toilets
Accessible toilets inside the church can be used.
Parking
It is possible to leave your car, with an ‘invalid badge’ (art. 12 DPR 503/96), in the reserved car park in nearby Piazza Sarzano (2 spaces), or in the Carignano car park, which has 100 spaces and is 500 metres away.
TICKETS
Booking online (presale 1 €)
Individual Ticket Museum of St. Augustine
regular price 5 €
reduced price 3 €
Who is entitled to a reduced ticket
Reduced 2 € for young people aged 18 to 26 year
gratuito
Who can enter for free
Showing Columbus’House ticket:reduced entrance to Sant’Agostino Museum.
In case of particular events or temporary exhibitions ticket prices are subject to change.
For complaints and returns download this form
In case of impossibility to visit the museum, you can request a refund of the entrance tickets (single, full or reduced, cards), including those purchased online. The refund request must be submitted within 15 days of the outage using this form.
Capuchin Cultural Heritage Museum
In the city centre, attached to the church of SS. Annunziata di Portoria where the Mausoleum of Santa Caterina Fieschi Adorno can be found, is the Capuchin Cultural Heritage Museum collects which the rich artistic heritage of the Ligurian monasteries.
Inside there are not only works by the most famous Genoese painters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, among whom Luca Cambiaso, Bernardo Strozzi, Orazio De Ferrari and Domenico Piola stand out, but also precious sacred furnishings and objects of craftsmanship and Capuchin “arte povera” such as frontals, wooden sculptures, nativity scenes as well as silverware of undisputed artistic value.
The visit to the Capuchin museum and to the monumental complex of the church of the Annunziata di Portoria offers the visitor a glimpse of the city's history, telling the story of the Portoria district and its great hospital in Pammatone where Santa Caterina da Genova offered assistance to victims of the plague, but it is here represented through the work and mission of the Capuchin friars, who for about five centuries have been at the service of the population with their religious witness and assistance to the needy.
The museum offers exhibition events with interesting insights consistent with the mission of the museum and the Capuchin friars themselves.
The works in the museum testify to the presence in the region, to the spirituality and the austerity that has always characterized the Franciscan Order and in particular that of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.
There are ten works that are particularly significant to the museum's heritage and that the visitor can always find during a visit regardless of any temporary installations. They come from the convents of the Ligurian Capuchins and are not only valuable works of art, such as the Polyptych of San Barnaba or the valuable monochrome painting dedicated to San Felice da Cantalice by Bernardo Strozzi, called the Capuchin because he belonged to the order, but also works of craftsmanship, produced over the centuries by the hands of skilled friars carvers, weavers, sculptors, etc.
A truly unique work is a two-faced sculpture in marble carved on both sides, depicting Saint Anthony of Padua with Jesus on one side and on the other the saint with the Virgin and Child.
TICKETS
For information on prices and opening times, please visit the Museum's website
Individual Ticket Capuchin Cultural Heritage Museum
Free offer.
Galata Maritime Museum
The Galata Maritime Museum is part of the Mu.MA - Maritime and Migrations Museums together with the “Lanterna” the Monumental Complex of the Lighthouse of Genoa, the Pegli Maritime Museum and the Commenda di Prè (which houses the National Museum of Italian Emigration).
The Galata, a few steps from the Genoa’s Aquarium, was created at the end of the 1990s based on a bold project of historical and environmental redevelopment of the area of the ancient Darsena and the remnants of the Arsenale della Repubblica: an entire area now rendered visible and which adds charm to the whole area.
The visit passes between the “museum” part in the main building and an open air park area where the archaeological-port is located and which now constitutes the waterfront of the museum, it is here that the submarine the “Nazario Sauro" is moored, the only one in Italy that can be visited “at sea”.
In the exhibition rooms, the visitor passes through scenes that create a suggestive context in which to appreciate the precious objects of the collections: paintings, medieval nautical maps, atlases, on-board scientific instruments, models, etc. They come to life, inviting the visitor to embark on a real journey to discover the history and imagery of the sea. Not surprisingly, the museum's slogan is "Get on board!"
The Galata Maritime Museum is the largest and most innovative maritime museum in the Mediterranean.
Four floors of exhibition space tell the history of sailing and the relationship that Genoa has with the sea, from the Middle Ages to the modern day. In addition to masterpieces such as the Veduta di Genova (view of Genoa) by Grassi and the portrait of Columbus, the large rooms of the Genoa arsenal hold reconstructions of the boats that have marked history: a 42 metre long galley, represents the Age of the oar, a brigantine relives the Age of sailing while the reconstruction of the various parts of a steamship illustrate the Age of Steam. All can be visited and the experience enriched through multimedia interaction.
But what's more, the Galata hosts some sections dedicated to specific themes: the exhibition entitled Memory and Migration and “Italiano anch’io”, are multimedia and interactive experiences dedicated to the history of migration. “Navigating in Art” is dedicated to the figurative arts, navigation and ports: this is achieved through the canvases and watercolours of the Clerici Collection, which are on permanent display in the museum, and includes 19th and 20th century works.
The tour of the interior of the museum ends with the permanent exhibition dedicated to the Andrea Doria, “the most beautiful ship in the world”, Genoa’s most famous, and least fortunate, ship.
Finally a visit to Nazario Sauro is a must, a submarine-museum that can be visited in the dock in front of the Galata, where you can literally "immerse yourself" in the fascinating world of submarines.
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The exhibition trail is totally accessible to the visitor with motor disabilities and blind people and hearing impaired.
Accessibility for wheelchair users
A three-wheel electric scooter is available.
The submarine S-518 Nazario Sauro, the water-boat-museum, is not accessible to disabled people in the wheelchair.
Accessibility for the visually impaired
A multimedia guide and a tactile map are available to present to the reader - visual or tactile - the main tourist information points visible from the Mirador panoramic terrace.
Galata's tactile guide is also available.
Accessibility for the hearing impaired
Galata is the first Museum in Italy to adopt amplification devices to improve listening along the way and inside the submerged Nazario Sauro for hearing-aiders and all visitors with hearing problems.
“Heart Gym”
Is a physical training program for patients with chronic heart failure, followed by ASL 3 Genovese, performed in a safe environment and supervised by medical personnel. Through the guided discovery of places and paths of artistic worth and of high emotional impact, we aim to help patients with this heart disease to achieve an adequate level of training and to improve their adherence to the prescribed daily physical exercise program.
Accessibility projects are being developed for people with mental disabilities.
Toilets
Reserved for visitors with disabilities are located on all floors. There are no horizontal or vertical grab bars on the ground and second floors.
Parking
It is possible to leave the car, equipped with a blue badge (art. 12 DPR 503/96) on the left-hand side of the Museum entrance. If it is occupied, it is possible to park inside the Park Aquarium, which has 780 parking spaces and is 200 meters from the Museum.
TICKETS
Booking online (presale 1 €)
Individual Ticket Galata Maritime Museum
Full price 17 €
Reduced - price 12 € military, over 64 years old, from 7 to 17 years old, agreement, visitors with disabilities,
free admission children from 0 to 6 years old
family tickets 38 € 2 adults from 18 to 64 years old and a child aged 7 to 17
school 7,50 €
Discover also the Genova City Pass to visit the main beauties of Genoa
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Museum of Risorgimento
Inaugurated on 5 May 1915 in Palazzo Bianco, it has since 1934 been located in the birthplace of Giuseppe Mazzini. It preserves and exhibits a rich historical and artistic heritage through which the symbolic figures of Risorgimento are brought to life: Giuseppe Mazzini and the republican and democratic movement; Giuseppe Garibaldi and the Red Shirts; Goffredo Mameli and the Italian Anthem.
The exhibition traces the historical events that led to the unification of Italy, from the Genoese anti-Austrian revolt in 1746 to the inauguration of the Monument to the Thousand of Quarto in 1915.
The substantial historical, artistic and documentary heritage preserved in the institute was created through donations and purchases as early as the nineteenth century. Paintings, prints, posters, sculptures, documents, photographs, uniforms, weapons, flags and relics cover a time span that goes beyond the strict chronology of the Risorgimento, and includes items from the 18th century to the Second World War and the Liberation.
Among the most significant works of the nineteenth century are the portraits of Goffredo Mameli, Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi, respectively painted by Domenico Induno, Emilie Ashurst, Gacinto Gallino. Also famous is the canvas by the Dutch painter Peter Tetar Van Elven with the faithful depiction of the departure of the Thousand from the rock of Quarto, which is flanked by the works of Plinio Nomellini created for the inauguration of the Monument to the Thousand (May 5, 1915), and the sketch by the sculptor Eugenio Baroni, winner of the national competition.
Highly evocative objects include the Red Shirts and the precious Flag of the Thousand in silk (1860) as well as Mazzini's guitar, always with him in his long London exile, which is still played today on special occasions.
Among the documents, a prominent place belongs to the first autographed draft of the Canto degli Italiani by Goffredo Mameli (1847) and to the Act of Surrender of the German troops signed in Genoa on 25 April 1945.
TICKETS
Individual Ticket Museum of Risorgimento
regular price 5 €
reduced price 3 €
Who is entitled to a reduced ticket
Reduced 2 € for young people aged 18 to 26 year
gratuito
Who can enter for free
In case of particular events or temporary exhibitions ticket prices are subject to change.
Booking online (presale 1 €)
For complaints and returns download this form
In case of impossibility to visit the museum, you can request a refund of the entrance tickets (single, full or reduced, cards), including those purchased online. The refund request must be submitted within 15 days of the outage using this form.
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Oriental Art Museum E. Chiossone
In the city centre, in the 19th-century park of Villetta Di Negro overlooking one of Genoa’s most elegant squares, Piazza Corvetto, there is a space dedicated to the Far East. Facing the sea, stands a building in perfect rationalist style, specifically designed by Mario Labò to house the collection donated to the city of Genoa by Edoardo Chiossone. Skilled Genoese engraver who lived and worked in Japan at the end of the 19th century, Chiossone is known throughout the world for having designed the first Japanese banknotes and securities.
Founded in 1905 the Museum, which is named after him, was the first museum dedicated to Japanese art to be founded in Italy, and houses the largest, most precious and most varied collection of Japanese art in Italy and one of the most important in Europe.
The Museum houses the rich heritage of Japanese and Chinese art collected by the Genoese Edoardo Chiossone in Japan at the end of the 19th century:
Buddhist sculptures, archaeological finds, armor and theatrical masks are exhibited in the permanent museum itinerary, together with porcelain, lacquers and bronzes, while exceptional ukiyo-e paintings and woodblock prints are visible during the temporary exhibitions.
TICKETS
Booking online (presale 1 €)
Individual Ticket Oriental Art Museum E. Chiossone
regular price 5 €
reduced price 3 €
Who is entitled to a reduced ticket
Reduced 2 € for young people aged 18 to 26 year
gratuito
Who can enter for free
In case of particular events or temporary exhibitions ticket prices are subject to change.
Membership Card for Young People (18 to 30 years old) – Kohai – €35.00
Free entry to the Museum throughout the year for the cardholder, with a discounted entry for one companion; a complimentary catalog of choice from a selection of those available for sale at the Museum; priority booking for events at the Museum; one free guided tour per year of the Museum by the curator; one free guided tour of a temporary exhibition conducted by the curator.
Membership Card for Adults Over 30 – Senpai – €80.00
Free entry to the Museum throughout the year for both the cardholder and one companion; a complimentary catalog of choice from all the catalogs available at the Museum; an exclusive Museum gift; priority booking for events at the Museum; one free guided tour per year of the Museum by the curator; guided tours of two temporary exhibitions by the curator; free participation in a special "Behind the Scenes" event once a year on special occasions (e.g., following the setup or deinstallation of an exhibition or overseeing the return of an artwork after restoration).
Booking online (presale 1 €)
For complaints and returns download this form
In case of impossibility to visit the museum, you can request a refund of the entrance tickets (single, full or reduced, cards), including those purchased online. The refund request must be submitted within 15 days of the outage using this form.
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Palazzo Spinola
UNESCO World heritage
An aristocratic palazzo in the heart of the city’s historic centre which was included in the Rolli System at the end of the 16th century. This is Palazzo Spinola, visitors will discover its luxurious 16th and 18th-century rooms, embellished with frescoes and oriental furnishings, fabrics and porcelain: a succession of spaces in which are exhibited one of the most important historical picture collections in the city, the scope of which allows you to immerse yourself in that refined and precious atmosphere that characterised the taste of the nobility of the Superba.
The visit is varied by the unusual possibility of discovering some characteristic spaces, such as the 19th-century kitchens or the famous Gallery of Mirrors.
The two “piani nobili” preserves the extraordinary artistic heritage which has been built over the generations thanks to the careful artistic patronage of its owners. Thus we have a precious example of an aristocratic house in which, on the first floor, the seventeenth-century aspects linked to the Grimaldi and Pallavicinos predominates, while the second is characterised by the eighteenth-century renovation associated with Maddalena Doria Spinola.
The last two floors of the building house the National Gallery of Liguria’s collection of paintings, sculptures, ceramics, furnishings that, already rich, have been gradually increased thanks to donations or purchases by the Italian State.
For more information, please refer to the website of Palazzo Spinola https://palazzospinola.cultura.gov.it/
Frescoes, stuccos, paintings, sculptures and precious furnishings accompany the discovery of one of the best preserved and most emblematic “house” museums in the city.
The works collected by the families who owned the palazzo and which, remarkaby, are still preserved in the building for which they were originally intended - such as the Portrait of Ansaldo Pallavicino by Van Dyck or the large canvases in the hall on the second piano nobili by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione and Luca Giordano, are further enriched by those that of recent acquisitions by the Italian State: from Antonello da Messina's Ecce Homo to Rubens's Portrait of Gio. Carlo Doria.
Museum of Ligustica Accademy of Fine Arts
In the city centre, overlooking Piazza De Ferrari, the historic building of the Ligustica Academy of fine arts, founded in 1751, also houses its museum: a collection of paintings and sculptures, coming from purchases or donations over the course of the institution's two-centuries of history.
The Accademia’s art collection comprises paintings, drawings, prints, engraving plates, plaster casts, bronze and marble sculptures, stone architectural elements, plaster and terracotta bozzetti, ceramics, a photography and photographic plate collection, art volumes and medals.
The most important collection, however, is that of the art gallery, which taken as a whole, constitutes a significant survey of art in Liguria from the fourteenth to the twenty-first century.
The rich collection of the Ligustica Academy preserves precious "gold backgrounds" and masterpieces by the great masters of the Genoese school between the 16th and 17th centuries, from Luca Cambiaso to Bernardo Strozzi and Domenico Piola, along with 19th-century works by Alfredo Luxoro, Ernesto Rayper, Alfredo D'Andrade, Serafino De Avendano, Antonio Varni.
It is also worth highlighting works by Rubaldo Merello, Plinio Nomellini, Giuseppe Cominetti, Matteo Baroni dating from the 20th century.
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