Salone - Palazzo Rosso

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Alcova

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Scala ottagonale Franco Albini

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Giove in forma di cigno con Elena e Polluce

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Frugone Collections

The Frugone Collections is part of the group of Museums located in Nervi, together with the GAM Gallery of Modern Art, the Giannettino Luxoro Museum and the Wolfsonian Museum.

Villa Grimaldi Fassio, like the more imposing Saluzzo Serra, now the headquarters of GAM, is immersed in the splendid context of the park. To it the Municipality of Genoa has dedicated the collections of two entrepreneur brothers Lazzaro and Luigi Frugone, donated to the city respectively in 1935 and in 1953. The location lends itself perfectly to hosting the paintings, marbles and bronzes collected by the Frugone which testify to the sparkling atmosphere, both national and international, of the Belle Époque between the late 19th and early 20th century, with three extraordinary works by Giovanni Boldini, including the famous and magnetic portrait of Miss Bell, which alone warrants a visit to the museum.

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The collections of these two refined collectors have no lack of examples of avante garde works of Symbolism and life painting and the representation of the landscape bathed in light, with some important works by the “Macchiaioli” Silvestro Lega, Telemaco Signorini and Giovanni Fattori.

Among the documented foreign artists, there are some works by leading figures from international post-impressionism including the great Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida.

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Fantacinema

Fantacinema is a very particular exhibition-museum, in fact it is the only one of its kind, where visitors are immersed in a kind of dream that captivates both old and young. Covering an area of about 600 square metres, it is housed in the splendid spaces on the ground floor of the first module of the Magazzini del Cotone in the Old Port, renovated by the architect Renzo Piano.

Inside it three important private collections are available to the public. The Pittaluga collection preserves “magic lanterns”, very rare slide projectors and the first motion film making and projection tools. The Griffith collection which is made up of rare original films - from Méliès to the fantasy and horror classics of the silent era - on film or transferred to digital media, along with equipment for projecting and editing film from the post-war period to today. And finally the Cineciak collection which consists of objects, fibreglass sculptures, original film costumes, posters and stills from the 1920s (Nosferatu, Dracula, King Kong etc.) till today (Star wars, Batman, Harry Potter, etc.).

The exhibition, based entirely on the evocative power of the objects and the participation of the visitor, was designed by the architect Paola Fazio while Maurizio Gregorini acted as Cultural Manager for the Municipality of Genoa.

Exhibitions dedicated to specific themes are often set up in the 40 seat meeting room.

There is also a rich collection of rare and hard to find gadgets dedicated to fantasy/science fiction cinema.

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Musei di Genova GAM Modern Art Museum

GAM Modern Art Museum

The GAM, Modern Art Museum of Genoa, is part of the group of Museums located in Nervi, together with the Frugone Collections, the Giannettino Luxoro Museum and the Wolfsonian Museum.

It is located in the ancient sixteenth-century building of Villa Saluzzo Serra, a noble residence set in its wonderful parks overlooking the sea, enlarged and decorated between the mid-1700s and the early 1900s.

Originally opened in 1928 it was totally redesigned in 2004, the museum exhibits a selection of the more than 3,000 works that make up the collections of the Civic Modern Art Museum, they include paintings, sculptures, drawings and engravings and which tell, through important artistic testimonies, the long and fruitful period that runs from the nineteenth century to the present day.

The embrio from which the collection originates was a donation by Prince Odone of Savoy in 1866, this has been increased by numerous subsequent bequests and purchases, a precious testimony of the cultural and artistic development of both the city and the region.

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GAM can lay claim to having the richest selection of publicly owned en-plein-air painting of the Scuola dei Grigi (School of Grey), with works by Tammar Luxoro, Alfredo D'Andrade and Ernesto Rayper; one of the largest selections of the divisionist work by Rubaldo Merello and two famous and impressive canvases by Plinio Nomellini. In the field of sculpture, the rich plaster casts of the great sculptor active in Rome, Giulio Monteverde, with over 50 sculptures is of particular note, and, in the room dedicated to the work of Arturo Martini, the poignant life-size terracotta, The Convalescent. Among the foreign artists represented in the collections are some of the leading protagonists of international post-impressionism including the American Richard Miller and the Parisian artist Lucien Simon.

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Estasi di San Francesco

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Fossili

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Insetti

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