The Civic Museum of Belluno was established in 1872, thanks to the donation to the city of the important collection of paintings, on panels and canvas, by the Belluno physician Antonio Giampiccoli. Soon after, the collections of bronzes, medals, plaques, coins, seals, manuscripts, and books of local interest from Count Florio Miari were added. The exhibition was housed in the building of the Collegio dei Giuristi, built in 1664, which still serves as the Museum’s location today. The civic collection was opened to the public in 1876 with an arrangement overseen by the royal provincial inspector of monuments and excavations Osvaldo Monti. The current layout has the ground floor occupied by the archaeological section documenting the long history of Valbelluna from the Middle Paleolithic to the Middle Ages. The Lapidarium, with important monuments and inscriptions documenting the history of Belluno in the Roman era, is housed in the entrance hall of the Auditorium, also located in Piazza Duomo.
On the first and second floors, the art gallery unfolds with paintings dating from the 14th to the 19th century, mostly originating from the Veneto area. Other rooms are dedicated to wooden sculpture—an art form in which Andrea Brustolon from Belluno was one of the finest interpreters—to the collection of plaques and small bronzes, ex-voto paintings, and fascinating and unusual collections of decorative arts, among which stand out, for completeness and richness, the collection of Belluno jewelry and that of porcelain.
Information about Civic Museum of Belluno
Piazza Duomo, 16
32100 Belluno (Belluno)
0437944836
museo@comune.belluno.it
https://www.museo.belluno.it
Source: MIBACT
