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 Place of intercultural dialogue |
Vicolo Pozzo, 1 Verona 37129 Italy +39 45 59 6238 |
The African museum was founded by the Combonian missionaries in 1938 to give value to the materials which had been collected during their missions. The materials show the culture and daily life of the African populations. In 1996 the display area was radically changed. From a classical ethnographical museum, which stood out for its interesting but rather sterile displays, it was made into a centre for communication and intercultural dialogue. Thanks to radical restructuring and the use of modern multimedia techniques, the museum now offers a positive and unusual picture of the African continent. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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Mosaics and sculptures |
Via Regaste Redentore, 2 Verona 37121 Italy +39 45 800 0360 |
This was once a monastery of St. Jerome that was founded in the fifteenth century. Since 1924, the archaelogical museum has been on this site. It was founded by Antonio Avena who provided a rich exhibition of finds from Roman Verona as well as examples of Greek and Etruscan civilisations. In the first room, the mosaic room, there are some mosaic remains with figures from 3 AD which stand out. These come from a Roman villa. There is also the "Fight of the Gladiators" from the 1 AD. The sculpture room is next; it is also known as the refectory. It is reached by a corridor along which there are various marble busts, including a "Menandro" which is a fourth century Roman copy of a Greek original. In the sculpture room there are many Veronese marble statues. Particularly of note is a Roman copy of a Greek statue of a woman, probably Fidia's "Sitting Aphrodite" or Alcamene's "The Aphrodite of the gardens". There is also a large sacred female statue. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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Napoleon in church |
Via Nuova Verona 37040 Italy +39 45 763 5020 |
This building, which in the 19th century was a small church for nuns and a rest-home for Arcle, now houses, the 'Gustavo Alberto Antonelli' Napoleonic museum (inaugurated in 1984), named after the architect who donated the necessary materials and was responsible for the setting up of the museum. In the four rooms some very significant relics have been preserved, including period prints, documentary material, paintings, manuscripts, imperial style furnishings and other exhibits from Napoleonic times that cover episodes in the life of the famous French leader. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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The smell of old parchments |
Piazza Duomo, 13 Verona 37121 Italy +39 45 59 6516 |
The Capitolare library is one of the most important library collections in the whole of Europe. It was founded in the fifth century as a "Scriptorium" for the "Schola Sacerdotum Sanctae Veronesis Ecclesiae", which has become today's Capitol, housed within the Canonicato palace since 1728, which was rebuilt in 1948 after its dstruction in the last war. The collection includes around 1,500 manuscripts, illuminated civil and legal documents, parchments and valuable illuminated works. Among the manuscripts some of the most valuable are the "Virgilio" from the fourth century, the "Istituzioni di Gaio", an original legal document from the fifth century, one of St. Augustine's "De civitate Dei" and the fifth century "Evangeliario purpureo" written in silver and gold. The library also holds splendid illuminated works like fifteenth century Biblical "Initia" and the "archivio dei canonici", which consists of over 11,000 parchments, the oldest of which dates from 710. Next to the library stands the Canonical museum, housing the city's most prestigious art gallery. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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The excavations at Ca' Nova |
Piazza Fracastoro, 8 Verona 37010 Italy +39 45 723 5022 |
The museum was set up following the drainage of a small lake in 1980 near Ca' Nova. This brought to light a settlement from two thousand years BC. It is full of examples from ancient and middle bronze age life.(1800-1500 BC. The museum contains finds which show their daily life: ceramics, daggers, small tables, amber and sewing frames. In another room they have reconstructed a Roman Necropolis which was found at Bossena. The museum also provides the opportunity to see a documentary on the excavations of Ca' Nova. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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the ancient Roman way of life |
Piazza Fiorini Verona 37060 Italy +39 44 255 0220 |
With this site only a few kilometers from Verona, archaeological enthusiasts shouldn't miss the chance to visit the Civic archaeological museum of Gazzo Veronese. This museum, like the handicraft and woodwork museum at Cerea, shows its visitors works of art from the outside, indeed the collection is housed in the sixteenth century Villa Poggiani which is a real treasure for art lovers. Inside the museum there are archaeological finds, most of which were found locally, which date back to different periods and are of different kinds. There are vases, glasses, bronzes, arms and necklaces from the Roman era and objects from the copper, bronze and iron ages. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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The protomoteca |
Via Cappello, 43 Verona 37121 Italy +39 45 807 9710 |
The public library was established in 1792 and holds over 700,000 works including books, early printed material, manuscripts, prints, pamphlets, historical documents and collections of magazines and journals. The hall is a protomoteca, or rather a collection of decorative elements consisting of the ornamental heads of illustrious Veronese characters, once kept in the Loggia del Consiglio. Among the most valuable holdings id a ninth century copy of the "Istituzioni di Giustiniano" and the "Omelie di S.Agostino" from the same period. Among the early printed material there is a "Lattanzio" from 1465 that was the first dated work to be printed in Italy. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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Fossilised fish |
Lungadige Porta Vittoria, 9 Verona 37129 Italy +39 45 807 9400 |
The civic natural history museum is in the sixteenth century Palazzo Pompei, a masterpiece by Sanmicheli. The building was given to the town in 1854 by Count Alessandro Pompei for it to become an exhibition site for scientific and ethnographic collections, and for renaissance artifacts and art collections. Whilst there was a time when the natural collections were few in comparison to the rest, the collection grew quickly with the passage of time. There were problems of space and it was only in 1936 that the art collections were moved to other buildings. Palazzo Pompei became an exhibition space exclusively for natural science. At present, there are nineteen rooms in which you can see more than 2 million examples of the world's animals, plants, geology, paleontology and prehistory. The fossilized fish from Bolca are a major attraction. They are contained in a weir which is 45 million years old. There are also the finds from the lake-dwelling on Lake Garda. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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Magnificent Natural History Museum |
Lungadige Porta Vittoria Verona, Verona 37121 Italy +39 45 807 9400 |
This museum of natural history is situated in the sixteenth-century Pompei Palace. It consists of nineteen rooms containing exhibits which illuminate the evolution of our planet and provide a clearer understanding of nature - both past and present. The zoological collections are comprehensive as are the carefully-cataloged finds e.g. fossils from Bolca. The prehistoric objects discovered in the dwellings on Lake Garda are particularly remarkable. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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Fossils galore |
Frazione Bolca di Vestenanova, 1 Verona 37030 Italy |
This is the most important museum in the world for tropical sea fossils: it is possible to admire fish, aquatic and terrestrial plants, shells as well as reptiles and insects which are all hard evidence (not Jurassic park now!), proof of what would have lived on a coral reef 50 million years ago. The fossils are mostly from "Pesciara" which is a tunnel to a quarry pit. You can visit it (even if you can't do your own digs!). Other finds are from neighboring areas, just showing that this branch of the Tetide sea, which washed against Lessinia in the Third Age was really rich with life. The museum is organised into three big rooms. It has also got a small tropical aquarium which is full of fish which are similar in shape to those which swam in the Lessinian waters 50 million years ago. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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Rescued frescoes |
Via del Pontiere, 9 Verona 37122 Italy +39 45 800 0361 |
Set up in 1973 this museum takes its name from the art historian Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle. It conserves frescoes which have been removed from religious and state buildings in Verona since last century. On the upper floor, in the first room there is a display of a group of frescoes from 1180. They were found on a second layer in the votive chapel of the SS. Nazaro and Celso. In the second room, there are displays of frescoes taken from Palazzo Guarienti ai Filippini. They contain allegorical scenes which are attributed to Paolo Farinati. Finally there is a third room in which there frescoes by Felice Brusasorci and Bernardino India. These came from the now demolished Palazzo Fiorio Della Seta. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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Maffei's ingenuity |
Piazza Bra, 28 Verona 37121 Italy +39 45 59 0087 |
Il Lapidario, one of the oldest public museums in Europe, was established in 1714, thanks to the work of the Marquis Scipione Maffei, a well-known man of culture, of Veronese origin. The origin nucleus of the museum can be found in the small space between the old walls that join Piazza Bra with Castelvecchio, made up of thirty of the Nichesola family's roman marbles collected by the philharmonic academy and displayed in the courtyard opposite the building. Subsequently, Maffei, after obtaining permission from the Venetian state, increased the collection to over two hundred valuable marble statues. It is widely believed that the Marquis was not averse to robbing a few tombs in order to decorate the rooms of the museum. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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Venetian sculpture and painting |
Corso Castelvecchio, 2 Verona 37121 Italy +39 45 59 4734 |
The castle of the Scaligeri family was converted into a museum in 1925. Since then it has hosted important collections of works of art in its rooms. These include sculptures from the XIV and XV centuries, tables from Medieval times through to the XVIII century, as well as jewelery, miniature paintings, clothes and arms. In the first room there are display of Romanesque Veronese sculpture and some particularly interesting items: including the so-called "Treasure of Rizza Island" from the fourteenth century. The second, third and fourth rooms are all full of Scaligeri sculptures from the Fourteenth century. In the fifth room they display fifteenth century works of art. Rooms 9-10 display frescoes from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In room 11 there is a presentation of international Gothic art. The next rooms, connected to the upper floors, exhibit paintings by Veronese and Venetian artists from the Renaissance including Liberale, Giolfino, Morone and Falconetto. The Venetian masters from the sixteenth century are all in room 22. In the next rooms there are collections from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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For lovers of classical music |
Piazza Bra Verona 37121 Italy |
The Accademia Filarmonica's museum-library, founded in 1543 is the ideal place for music scholars and in fact, entrance is only granted to the latter. The library houses a wealth of texts devoted to the history of music, with a section specialising in old music mainly from the 1500's and another specialising in nineteenth century compositions. At the same time, the building also serves as a museum, displaying many wind instruments from the Renaissance that were in fact used by the Philharmonics. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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Beautiful museum in centre |
Vicolo Pozzo,1 Verona, Verona 37129 Italy |
This is a permanent exhibition set up by the Combonians in 1938, to educate Europeans about the culture of the African people groups to whom missionaries were sent. Placards, multimedia materials and special displays tell the history of the continent's different populations and generic displays describe and contrast the fauna and flora, musical instruments, games and furnishings of Africa with those of Europe. The creativity of the African artists and the refined quality of their absolutely original arts is expressed through sculpture, musical instruments and jewelry. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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15th century paintings |
Piazza Duomo, 13 Verona 37121 Italy |
Next to the Biblioteca Capitolare we find the Museo Pinacoteca Canonicale which is one of the most important museums in Europe thanks to the extent and antiquity of its collections. Inside there are some considerable collections of paintings and also stone sculptures, with the latter being on display in the main room, the most notable being a relief model representing "SS Ermagora e Fortunato," executed in 1120 by a maestro from Como together with the "Arcangelo Michele" by a Veronese artist, from the first half of the 1300's. Further along we come across an exhibition of paintings mainly from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The main pieces include the "Madonna col Bambino coronata da angeli"(Madonna with child surrounded by angels) by Nicoli Solimani, the "Madonna allattante" (Breastfeeding Madonna) and the "Madonna col Bambino" (Madonna with child) by Liberale da Verona and the "Natività" (Nativity ) by Nicolo Giolfino. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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The steam train that is still puffing along |
Magazzino Centrale Logistico F.S. Porta Vescovo Porto S. Pancrazio Verona 37129 Italy |
Anyone who, as a child, has imagined travelling to distant worlds, on an old steam train, will not be able to resist the charms of Verona's railway museum. Examples of both modern and old rolling stock can be found on display in this museum with some of the pieces still in full working order. The miniature steam train is of particular interest as are scale models of locomotives, model carriages and cars and electric locomotives. One part of the museum is devoted to old uniforms and other railway memorabilia. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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The battle of Rivoli |
Piazza Napoleone, 1 Verona 37010 Italy +39 45 728 1309 |
Studying history can often be somewhat tedious. Leafing through pages and pages of past events is not one of the most pleasurable ways of passing time. And so for this reason, anyone who wants a more unusual and enjoyable way of learning some of Italy's history, should take advantage of what the Rivoli Napoleonic museum has to offer. A plastic model, perfect in every detail, captures the drama of the battle of Rivoli that took place on fourteenth January, 1797 during Napoleon's Italian campaign. The museum also houses relics, pictures and portraits, autographed documents, prints and period reproductions that are testimonial to the events of the Napoleonic period. Finally, one section of the museum is devoted to the Italian Risorgimento of the early 19th century. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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Collections of an ancient family |
Via S. Mamaso, 2a Verona 37121 Italy |
The Museum of the Miniscalchi-Erizzo Foundation is housed in the fifteenth-century palace of the same name in the Via Mamaso. It exhibits the furnishings and rich art collections of an ancient family. The fifteen rooms, containing furnishings from the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, house numerous, varied collections. They are all organised by theme. Some of the rooms contain important archaeological finds from the Etruscan and Roman periods, including bronzes, glassware, ceramics and coins. Other rooms contain weapons and armour from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries while in others paintings and drawings by Venetian masters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are displayed. The 'Portrait of Nicolò Erizzo' by Alessandro Longhi is one that particularly stands out. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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