The area of Savona and “Riviera” boasts more than 30 unique museums with archaeological, artistic, ethnographic and historical importance. Gems to be discovered through natural and cultural itineraries of great charm.

We have selected some of these museums but to discover them all you can access the web site:

www.provincia.savona.it/aree-tematiche/tempo-libero/rete-museale

ARCHAEOLOGY

MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY OF FINALE
Finale Ligure
Tel. 019 690020
www.museoarcheofinale.it

Housed in the Monumental Complex of Santa Caterina in Finalborgo, allows the visitor to discover, through archaeological finds, reconstructions and environmental scale models,  the characteristics of Finale from prehistoric times until today. The Museum has also developed, with the Dipartment of Archaeological Heritage of Liguria, the project “Archeotrekking Finale”, a series of itineraries and guided tours to archaeological sites that are usually not accessible.

ART
PALAZZO GAVOTTI – PINACOTECA CIVICA
Savona
Tel. 019 811520
www.comune.savona.it

The Art Gallery, located in the antique Palazzo Gavotti, offers a route from the fourteenth century to the present day art with paintings, sculptures and ceramics. Among the works of art we recommend  the extraordinary “Crucifixion” by Donato de ‘Bardi, unique in the panorama of Renaissance painting, the altarpiece by Vincenzo Foppa and the altarpieces of the age of Savona Popes Sixtus IV and Julius II. The seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are represented by paintings of the most important artists working in Liguria.

PALAZZO GAVOTTI – CERAMIC COLLECTIONS
The museum presents magnificent examples of local pottery production from the fifteenth to the twentieth century, from the ceramics of the Cinquecento to the works of the twentieth century artists including Locksmiths, Farfa, Jorn, Lam.

FOUNDATION MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART MILENA MILANI IN MEMORY OF CARLO CARDAZZO

Savona
Tel. 019 829592
www.comune.savona.it

The Art Gallery displays works of the Foundation commissioned by the writer and artist from Savona Milena Milani. The collection offers a significant selection of the most important moments of international contemporary art with works by Arp, Campigli, Capogrossi, de Chirico, Delvaux, Dubuffet, Fontana, Jorn, Magritte, Miro, Picasso, Twombly.

DIOCESAN MUSEUM AND EARLY CHRISTIAN BAPTISTERY

Albenga
Tel. 0182 50288-8

Inside the old Episcopal Palace you will admire a collection of medieval tables and seventeenth-century paintings, including the Martyrdom of St. Catherine by Guido Reni and tapestries of the sixteenth century. The cathedral leads to the Baptistery, one of the most important early Christian monuments of northern Italy, built in the late Roman period, between fifth and sixth centurie.

WEST GALLERY
Alassio
Tel. 0182 648078
www.comune.alassio.sv.it

The West Gallery presents the works of the painter Richard Whateley West, who lived in Alassio from 1888, and the Libreria Inglese, one of the most important libraries in the English language in Italy.

MUSEUM OF GLASS
Altare
Tel. 019 584734
www.museodelvetro.org

Housed in the Liberty style Villa Rosa, the museum is dedicated to the glass manufacturing, which in  Altare has very ancient roots dating back to the eleventh century

MUSEUM FONDATION GIUSEPPE MAZZOTTI 1903

Albissola Marina
Tel. 019 489872
www.gmazzotti1903.it
www.tulliomazzotti.it

The museum displays ceramics of important artists of the twentieth century: Lucio Fontana, Emilio Scanavino, Asger Jorn, Gianni Dova, Sebastian Matta, Enrico Baj and Sergio Dangelo, among others.

HISTORY
MUSEO NAPOLEONICO
Millesimo
Tel. 019 564007
www.comunemillesimo.gov.it

The museum, in  Villa Scarzella, consists of a significant collection of prints, maps, posters and notices relating to Napoleon’s victorious campaign in Italy.

PALEONTOLOGY
GROTTE DI BORGIO VEREZZI
Borgio Verezzi
Tel. 019 610150
www.grottediborgio.it

A few minutes away from the sea, stalactites and stalagmites, majestic columns, graceful draping and incredible eccentric shapes take place making a visit to this underground world a truly unique experience.

CAVES OF TOIRANO

Troiano
Tel. 0182 98062
www.toiranogrotte.it

The massive gray dolomite limestone that gives rise to the complex of caves Toirano, contains more than 50 natural caves, with evidence of the presence of prehistoric man, dating to the Upper Paleolithic.