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 from Count Florio Miari were added. The Collegio dei Giuristi palace, built in 1664 and still the seat of the Museum, was assigned for the exhibition. The civic collection was opened to the public in 1876 with an arrangement curated by the royal provincial inspector of monuments and excavations Osvaldo Monti. The current layout sees the ground floor occupied by the archaeological section documenting the long history of the Valbelluna from the Middle Paleolithic to the Middle Ages. The Lapidary with important monuments and inscriptions documenting the history of Belluno in the Roman era 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 from the Veneto area. Other rooms are dedicated to wood sculpture – an art in which Andrea Brustolon, from Belluno, found one of its best interpreters – to the collection of plaques and small bronzes, to ex voto paintings, and to fascinating and unusual collections of decorative arts, including, notable for completeness and richness, that of Belluno jewelry and that of porcelains.
Information about Museo civico di Belluno
Piazza Duomo, 16
32100 Belluno (Belluno)
0437944836
museo@comune.belluno.it
https://www.museo.belluno.it
Source: MIBACT
