Museums in Umbria

Libraries, art galleries and exhibition rooms in Umbria Italy

Church of San Francesco

The Civic Museum of Montefalco, located in the former Church of San Francesco, presents its exhibition way between the apse, hosting a cycle of frescoes of Benozzo Gozzoli, the counter façade decorated by a work of Perugino and the Art Gallery, with the Room of Melanzio and some archaeological antiquities.

National Archaeological Museum of Spoleto

The National Archaeological Museum of Spoleto, located in the former monastery of Sant’Agata, is a permanent exhibition on the history and territory of the Umbrian town with various specimen coming from the excavations made in the surrounding areas.

The Chapel of San Brizio

In the painted decorations of the Chapel of San Brizio, inside the Cathedral of Orvieto, we find a very high expressivity of the painting of the 15th century of Beato Angelico and Luca Signorelli, specially in the representation of Dante of the Universal Judgement.

Archeological Museum of Amelia

Inside the ex College Boccalini, the Archeological Museum of Amelia hosts the famous bronze statue of Nerone Claudio Druso called the “Germanic”, found in 1963 during some excavating works for a construction.

Museum of the Torgiano wine

The Lungarotti family, in order to maintain lively the memory of the rural traditions, has dressed the Museum of the Oil and of the Olive and the Museum of the Wine in Palazzo Graziani-Baglioni, through the building up of the Foundation of the same name in the historic centre of Torgiano.

Archaeological Museum

In “Piazza della Repubblica” in Foligno is located Palazzo Trinci, a monumental complex made of houses and towers, that nowadays became Museum of the city. In the exhibition spaces are located the Art Gallery, the Archaeological Museum and the Museum of the Tournaments and of the Games.

Palazzo of the Consoli

The Civic Museum, in the rooms of Palazzo of the Consoli of Gubbio, is hosting an archaeological collection including the Iguvine Tables, a numismatics collection with Italic and roman specimen, an exhibition space dedicated to the ceramics and the Art Gallery with a wooden from the Giotto school.

National Archaeological Museum of Orvieto

The Palazzo of the Pope, in the historic centre of Orvieto, is hosting the National Archaeological Museum, gathering in its exhibition space the two Etruscan tombs found by Golini with frescoes illustrating the funereal banquet, Etruscan ceramics with red faces, bronzes and funeral equipments.

Trevi Flash Art Museum

Palazzo Lucarini of Trevi is hosting the Flash Art Museum: permanent exhibition of contemporary art at the international level. In the exhibition alleys dressed are presented works of the great maestro that have worked from the 60’s up to nowadays.

Burri Collection

Thanks to the donation of the artist of the first 32 prints to his native city in 1978, was born the Burri Collection. Nowadays, this one presents around 130 works in exhibition in the historic siege of Palace Albizzini and, since 1990, in the exhibition area of the ex tobacco dryers, 128 works belonging to the cycle of big format realized by the maestro between 1979 and 1993.