Villa De Brandis, San Giovanni al Natisone

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

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

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

Visit information:

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