Municipal Museum of Rimini (Museo della Citta di Rimini) description and photos - Italy: Rimini (Topic)

Municipal Museum of Rimini (Museo della Citta di Rimini) description and photos - Italy: Rimini. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Museo della Citta di Rimini.

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The Municipal Museum of Rimini is housed in a former Jesuit monastery built in the mid-18th century by the Bologna-based architect Alfonso Torreggiani. Nearby, in Piazza Ferrari, stands the Church of San Francesco Saverio.

From 1797 to 1977, the monastery housed a hospital, at first a military, then a civilian, and now its building is given to the City Museum. In 40 galleries, covering an area of 3 thousand square meters, there are over 1500 different exhibits related to the history of Rimini and its surroundings. The courtyard garden houses a collection of ancient Roman epigraphs. On the first floor of the museum there is a section dedicated to Rene Gruo, the famous local fashion designer who died in 2004. In the premises of the former cellar of the monastery, there is now a new archaeological section, opened in 2010. It contains artifacts from prehistoric times to late antiquity that tell the story of Rimini. The acquaintance with imperial Rimini can be continued on the first floor - there are exhibited excellent mosaics from the Palazzo Diotallevi, sculptures, coins, ceramics, bronze, glass, etc. An invaluable exhibit in this section is the surgical instruments found in the so-called House of the Surgeon in Piazza Ferrari.

The second and third floors of the museum are occupied by the Art Gallery, whose works date back to the 14-19th centuries. On the second floor, you can see frescoes, ceramics and paintings from the 15th and 16th centuries, commissioned by the powerful ruler of Malatesta. And here is also a 14th-century fresco called "Judgment Day" that once adorned the walls above the triumphal arch in the church of Sant'Agostino. The section of the Middle Ages contains about 300 exhibits - sculptures, illustrated manuscripts, works of art from the 14th century.

On the third floor, there are paintings from the 17-18th centuries, among the authors of which are Guido Cagnacci, Il Centino, Il Guercino, Simone Cantarini and Giovanni Battista Costa.

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