Museums in Umbria

Libraries, art galleries and exhibition rooms in Umbria Italy

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Museum of the Work of the Cathedral of Orvieto

The Museum of the Work of the Cathedral of Orvieto, located in the Palazzo of the Popes, is hosting more than 200 works between frescoes and sculptures that are reaching their most important artistic level in the terracotta of Luca Della Robbia, in the reliquary of the crane of San Savino and in the “polittico” of Simone Martini.

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.

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.

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.