MUNICIPAL MUSEUM RIMINI

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Municipal Museum - Rimini Museum

The Municipal Museum, housed in the eighteenth century former College of the Jesuits, designed by the Bolognese architect Alfonso Torreggiani, in the town centre, on the road called after Luigi Tonini, eminent scholar of Rimini, offers over 40 rooms containing approximately five hundred local works of art.The ground floor exhibits a permanent section dedicated to the artist from Rimini René Gruau, and some marvellous Roman mosaics of the domus of Rimini, among which the noteworthy “Mosaico delle Barche”, a mosaic representing Roman boats found in the triclinium of a domus during the archaeological excavations which took place in 1975-1981 in the underground of Diotallevi Palace. Also Roman pottery, like the famous “pocula deorum”, i.e. small inscribed cups, is in exhibition.In the courtyard garden there is the Roman epigraphic section, which contains 68 lapidary inscriptions dating from the first century B.C. to the fourth century A.D. Among the numerous funerary inscriptions particularly noteworthy is the stele of the Ovii. Dating back to the first century B.C, it is one of the most ancient steles of the Emilia-Romagna Region. Very interesting is also the historical inscription which reminds us of the paving of the streets of Rimini by Gaius Caesar, grandson and designated heir of the Emperor Augustus, who died in 5 A.D.A grand staircase leads to the picture-gallery, housed on the first and second floors. The paintings are arranged chronologically from the eleventh to the twentieth centuries. On the first floorare exhibited masterpieces, like“The Crucified” by Giovanni, the “Polyptych With The Crucifixion and The Saints” and the fresco representing the “Last Judgment”, belonging to the fourteenth century Rimini school, to which Giotto's presence in town gave a great contribution. In the room dedicated to the “Quattrocento” are exhibited paintings commissioned by the Malatesta Court, like the “Pietà” by Bellini and the Pala by the Ghirlandaio. The Reinassance art iswell documented. There are, among others, six noteworthy paintings by artists from Rimini or Romagna. Capitals and architectural fragments belonging to sixteenth-century buildings, tapestries and precious maiolica pots, are also in exhibition. On the second floor are exhibited paintings of the inventive local “Seicento”. There are paintings by local artists, like Giovanni Francesco Nagli called Centino, and by artists who have worked in the town of Rimini. Also the masterpieces of the “Settecento” are by local painters or painters who have worked in Rimini. It is worth mentioning, among the works of art of the “Ottocento”, those by the local artists Mariano Mancini, Francesco Brici, Guglielmo Bilancioni and Norberto Pazzini.

16-06/15-09: 10-12.30/16.30-19.30; 21.00-23.00 (Tuesday on Juli-August)

Book shop: yes

Monday unless a bank holiday

Weekday opening times:

8.30-12.30 - 17.00-19.00

Holiday opening times:16.00-19.00

Entry fee:Euro 4.00 - Sunday entry free

Discount:Euro 2.50; Euro 1.50 School

Adress: Via L. Tonini, 1 - Rimini

Fax:+39 0541.28692

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Flight: Airport of Rimini > Bus n.9 > Bus stop Arco D'Augusto > Corso Augusto > V. Gambalunga > Via Tonini on foot