Il Museo Civico di Belluno was established in 1872, thanks to the donation to the city of the important collection of paintings on panel and canvas by the Belluno doctor Antonio Giampiccoli. Soon after, the collections of bronzes, medals, plaques, coins, seals, manuscripts, and books of local interest of Count Florio Miari were added. The exhibition was housed in the Palazzo del Collegio dei Giuristi, built in 1664 and still the seat of the Museum today. The civic collection was opened to the public in 1876 with an installation curated by the royal provincial inspector of monuments and excavations, Osvaldo Monti. The current arrangement sees 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 age is housed in the entrance hall of the Auditorium, also in Piazza Duomo.
On the first and second floors, the art gallery unfolds with paintings dating from the 14th to the 19th century, mostly coming from the Venetian area. Other rooms are dedicated to wooden sculpture—an art that in Belluno found one of its best interpreters in Andrea Brustolon—to the collection of plaques and small bronzes, to ex-voto paintings, and to 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 Museo civico di Belluno
Piazza Duomo, 16
32100 Belluno (Belluno)
0437944836
museo@comune.belluno.it
https://www.museo.belluno.it
Source: MIBACT
