In 1937 Achille Forti, an illustrious botanist and the last descendant of the family, left the palace to the Municipality of Verona which, according to the testamentary wishes, converted it into a modern art museum. With these duties, the palace remained open for a little over a year. Following the war events, it was first used as the headquarters of the Academy of Fine Arts and Artistic High School, then as offices of the municipal administration until around 1950.
In 1966 some restoration work was undertaken, under the supervision of Prof. Licisco Magagnato, which brought to light the medieval structures. In the meantime, but only for a few months, the museum headquarters were reopened, but were definitively closed (except for some solitary exhibitions) until the Eighties.
In 1982 the municipal administration decided on the definitive opening of the Gallery which was inaugurated on March 14 of the same year. Since then, the museum structure has organized numerous and important exhibitions dedicated to the most important figures and movements in the national and international artistic scene: including Van Gogh, Munch, Degas, Toulouse Lautrec, Picasso, Modigliani, de Chirico, Magritte, Klee, Kandinsky, Malevich, Chagall up to the contemporary Marc Quinn.
