Villa De Brandis, San Giovanni al Natisone

The museum occupies the premises on the first floor of Villa de Brandis, built between 1718 and 1724 and donated, along with all the furnishings, to the Municipality of San Giovanni al Natisone by Countess Caterina de Brandis, the last descendant of the noble family.

Villa de Brandis houses important art collections such as the Painting Gallery, with paintings from the 14th to the 20th century, and a substantial number of original wooden furnishings and interesting household items (16th-19th centuries). The family library (about six thousand volumes published between 1501 and 1980), the photographic archive, and the family archive documents are located at the Civic Library, adjacent to the rooms where the museum is located.

Behind Villa de Brandis stretches a centuries-old park, designed according to the English garden concept, with magnolias, palms, beeches, hornbeams, cedars, lindens, large thujas, and a charming central pond.

Visit info:

The park of Villa de Brandis is open to the public every day during daylight hours