The large building stands along via Garibaldi, the road artery that starting from the Railway Station reaches the area of Pedrocchi and Bo, which is the heart of the historic center, and until recently it was the headquarters of the Italian Post Office. It faces the complex that includes the Roman Arena, the Scrovegni Chapel, and the Eremitani Museum: due to its location, it has been identified as the preferred destination for the exhibition expansion of the Civic Museums’ collections.
The Palace was built between 1912 and 1914 by the Milanese architect Arosio, still in the nineteenth-century style, commissioned by the industrialist Enrico Zuckermann. It can be considered one of the symbols of the new bourgeois city that arose between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the 20th century, following the definition of the new privileged road axis leading to the station. It houses on the ground floor and first floor the new Museum of Applied Arts and, on the second floor, the Bottacin Museum. In the near future, the Palace is destined to accommodate, in addition to the museum exhibition rooms, a series of functions that cannot find space at the Eremitani, such as catering. Spaces are planned for bookshop, ticket office, temporary exhibitions.
Information about Palazzo Zuckermann
Corso Garibaldi, 33
35126 Padova (Padua)
049665567
musei@comune.padova.it
https://padovacultura.padovanet.it/musei/archivio/cat_sedi_civiche
Source: MIBACT
