Vicenza Museums

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Museo Civico Palazzo Chiericati (Civic Museum) - Palazzo Chiericati in Piazza Matteotti, 37/39 - Vicenza

Open since 1855, the Museo Civico Pinacoteca houses collections of painting, sculpture, the Cabinet of Drawings and Prints and the Numismatic Cabinet. Among the significant works are the altarpieces by Bartolomeo Montagna and Cima da Conegliano, canvases by Tintoretto, Van Dyck, Tiepolo and Piazzetta, 33 drawings by Palladio.
Recent donations have brought twentieth-century artists Carrà, De Pisis, Guidi, Licini, Rosai, Severini, Vedova to the exhibition.

Gallerie d'Italia - Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Contrà Santa Corona, 25 - Vicenza

On permanent display is a collection of Russian icons and a valuable collection of eighteenth-century Venetian painting.

Museo del Risorgimento e della Resistenza - Viale X Giugno, 115 - Vicenza

The museum itself stands on the hill where in 1848 there was a heroic resistance from the city of Vicenza by the independence troops.
On display is a precious series of documents from the Risorgimento including printed publications, periodicals, portraits, medals and decorations, paintings, prints, newspapers, manuscripts, diaries, announcements and proclamations, decrees, private deeds, coins, civil and military, sidearms and firearms, flags.

Museo Naturalistico Archeologico (Archaeological Naturalistic Museum) - C.a’ S. Corona, 4 - Vicenza

On display are ornithological finds, malacological and osteological collections, the herbarium of the famous naturalist and archaeologist Paolo Lioy, entomological collections linked to the ecosystem of the Vicenza area.

Museo Diocesano (Diocesan Museum) - Piazza Duomo, 12 - Vicenza

The heritage of the diocese of the city of Vicenza on display since 2005: the itinerary opens with the archaeological sections which focus on the period of the appearance of Christianity in the city. Remains of liturgical furnishings from the early medieval period and a large Roman basin used as a public fountain, early medieval sculptures and fourteenth-century frescoes follow.
On the first floor, an exhaustive pictorial section sheds light on the Renaissance, Baroque and eighteenth-century periods of the city of Vicenza.

Museo di Monte Berico (Museum of Monte Berico) - C.a’ S. Corona, 4 - Vicenza

On the hill overlooking the city, a few steps from the historic centre, a museum with thematic works dating back to the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; an important part of the collection consists of ex votos.

Raccolta di Scienze Naturali (Collection of Natural Sciences) - Borgo S. Lucia 43 - Vicenza

The museum includes collections of minerals, fossils, rocks, stuffed birds and reptiles, and a paleontological collection with finds from various missions and from the Holy Land. In the room dedicated to physics, scientific instruments from the last century are collected.

Galleria del Motorismo, Mobilità e Ingegno Veneto - Giannino Marzotto - Museo dell’Automobile “Bonfanti-VIMAR”, via Torino 1 - Romano d'ezzelino (Vi)

Historical testimony on the appearance of the inventions that led to the conception of the first automobile.