The Visconti Castle of Pavia was built by Galeazzo Visconti between 1360 and 1365. The visit takes place inside rooms that still preserve precious frescoes from the Visconti and Sforza eras. Although deprived of the northern wing through which the ducal residence overlooked the Park, thus connecting to the Charterhouse, the Castle maintains intact the suggestive harmony of the masterpiece, among the most outstanding of late Gothic Lombard architecture.
Since the post-World War II period, the Castle has been home to the Civic Museums of Pavia, which include the archaeological and early medieval section with splendid Roman, Gothic, and Lombard artifacts, the Romanesque and Renaissance section, the Malaspina Art Gallery with works from the 14th to the 16th century and those of the 17th and 18th centuries, the 19th-century Picture Gallery, the Morone Collection, the Museum of the Risorgimento, the Plaster Cast Gallery, and the Robecchi Bricchetti Ethnographic Museum, as well as a space for temporary exhibitions. With the restoration of the Castle Stables, the Civic Museums have recently been enriched with an additional exhibition space.
Information about the Civic Museums of Pavia
Viale XI Febbraio, 35
27100 Pavia (Pavia)
038233853 – 0382304816
museicivici@comune.pv.it
https://www.museicivici.pavia.it/
Source: MIBACT
