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.

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.

Rocca Albornoziana

The “Rocca Albornoziana”, inside which is located the National Museum of the Duchy with a collection of pieces found in the area and dating back to the period going from the 4th to the 15th centuries, is placed in a dominating position with respect to the city of Spoleto, and it is one of the most significant monuments of the Umbrian city.

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.

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.

National Gallery of Umbria

The rooms of the National Gallery of Umbria are dressed inside the Palace of the Priori along “Corso Vannucci”. In exhibition, among others, you can admire the works of Arnolfo di Cambio, Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, Duccio di Boninsegna, Gentile from Fabriano, Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci, called “il Perugino”, Benozzo Gozzoli and the Beato Angelico.

Scarzuola Convent and Buzziana City

Around the Convent of the Scarzuola, founded by San Francesco of Assisi, the architect Tomaso Buzzi, with the occasion of the restoration of the pre existing structures, projected and cared the realisation of the series of buildings organised around a scenic view nowadays known as Buzziana City.

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.

Dynamic Museum of the Laterizio

The Museum of the Laterizio is located in Palazzo Pietromarchi di Marciano, and it is a travel at the discovery of antique jobs and techniques aimed at valorising a production that has given a great economic and commercial development to the city hosting it.

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.