Museums and exhibitions in Romagna
From Ravenna's Byzantine mosaics to Faenza's ceramics, from Roman Rimini to Fellini's world: first the exhibitions open now, then the museums by area, public and private, free and paid, each with the link to its official site.
Exhibitions on now
The temporary exhibitions open now or coming soon, the ones closing first on top.
Parole ad altezza d'uomo. Alberto Orioli
4 September - 17 October
Ravenna · Biblioteca Classense, Manica Lunga
About thirty collages by the journalist and artist Alberto Orioli made from newspapers from all over the world, with a section born from the pages of the Divine Comedy and the Classense incunabula.
Sottoterra. Forme d'inchiostro e olio
2-17 October
Ravenna · Palazzo Rasponi 2
Paintings and prints by Tommaso Martines beside the texts and drawings of Veronica Casadei: a route between dream and waking, between painting and poetry.
Luogo d'incontro. Daniela Fernanda Tumedei
5 September - 18 October
Cesena · Galleria comunale del Ridotto
A solo show by Daniela Fernanda Tumedei conceived for the rooms of the Ridotto and devoted entirely to the city of Cesena.
Spadini e Menzio. Sguardi in famiglia
29 September - 25 October
Forlì · Museo Civico San Domenico
Two paintings on childhood and studying at home side by side: "Children studying" by Armando Spadini, the painting on the old thousand-lira note, from the Bank of Italy collection, and "In the study" by Francesco Menzio, from the Forlì collections.
Non voltarti adesso. Chiara Calore
19 September - 8 November
Bagnacavallo · Ex Convento di San Francesco
Chiara Calore's paintings along the long corridors of the former convent: faces suspended between scream and silence, on a route that keeps pulling you back. The title comes from Nicolas Roeg's film set in Venice.
Centro Arti Figurative di Riccione, 50 anni
18 October - 15 November
Riccione · Villa Franceschi, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
Fifty years of the Centro Arti Figurative, founded in 1976: a group show with works by the founding members and the first artists who brought art to life in Riccione.
Quando le ali divennero realtà. Il mito del volo nella Belle Époque
26 September - 21 November
Lugo · Biblioteca Trisi
For the hundred years of the Baracca Museum: books, magazines and images on the dream of flying, from the balloons over Lugo's Pavaglione to the first aviators from Lugo, up to the myth of the pilot in popular culture.
Copertine EXTRA
15 October - 29 November
Rimini · Palazzo del Fulgor
Thirty original covers of the Compagnia Extra series by Quodlibet, edited by Ermanno Cavazzoni, author of the novel Fellini turned into The Voice of the Moon: the story of the series begins with The Journey of G. Mastorna.
Sant'Alberto: il paese dei poeti
24 April - 31 December
Sant'Alberto (Ravenna) · Per le vie del paese, da via Olindo Guerrini al traghetto sul Reno
An open-air photography exhibition: thirty-five giant prints by Giampiero Corelli on the walls of the village reinterpret Dante, Byron, Pascoli and Olindo Guerrini with the faces of the people who live in Sant'Alberto today, in the Po Delta park.
Legato con amore in un volume
3 September 2026 - 9 January 2027
Ravenna · Biblioteca Classense
Antique books, graphic works and archival testimonies tell the legacy of Dante. The exhibition documents the cultural legacy of the Supreme Poet through historical materials preserved in the library.
Fu tutto serafico in ardore
16 May 2026 - 10 January 2027
Ravenna · Basilica di San Francesco
For the eight hundredth anniversary of the death of Saint Francis, the friars of the basilica tell his life in fifteen panels, with the Franciscan sources, the Canticle of the Sun, Canto XI of Dante's Paradise and reproductions of Giotto's frescoes in Assisi.
Nordic Table Design. Una silenziosa rivoluzione femminile (1900-1970)
20 June 2026 - 10 January 2027
Faenza · MIC Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche
Seventy years of Nordic tableware design seen through the women who designed it: more than two hundred objects from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, with a section on the Nordic pieces awarded in Faenza between 1964 and 1974.
Il codice della Passione. Bellini e Mantegna allo specchio
18 July 2026 - 10 January 2027
Rimini · Museo della Città e Domus del Chirurgo
Giovanni Bellini's Pietà is back in Rimini after its restoration and for a few months stands beside Andrea Mantegna's Saint Sebastian: a small exhibition, two Renaissance masterpieces side by side.
In ponta d'pì. Officina romagnola
24 September 2026 - 10 January 2027
Bagnacavallo · Museo Civico delle Cappuccine
Fifteen photographers from Romagna of different generations and their way of looking at their land, with Guido Guidi as master and fellow traveller. The title is a line by the poet Nevio Spadoni.
Lee Miller. Opere 1930-1955
10 October 2026 - 10 January 2027
Forlì · Museo Civico San Domenico
More than a hundred and sixty photographs from the Lee Miller Archives: twenty-five years of work by the American photographer, from Surrealism to fashion, from the war to the last chapter of her career. Curated by Walter Guadagnini.
Marcantonio. Cosa vuoi fare da piccolo?
11 October 2026 - 10 January 2027
Ravenna · Palazzo Rasponi dalle Teste
More than fifty works, installations and design objects by the artist Marcantonio, trained in Ravenna, among the frescoes and period decorations of Palazzo Rasponi: from his first sculptures to large works and unseen pieces.
La rotonda del re
10 October 2026 - 16 January 2027
Ravenna · Biblioteca Classense
The Mausoleum of Theodoric told through documents, chronicles, old books, prints and photographs from the 19th century onwards, from the restorations to the story of the porphyry tub that held the king's body.
Nicola Samorì. Supremalia
17 October 2026 - 17 January 2027
Ravenna · MAR Museo d'Arte della città di Ravenna
Painting and sculpture by Nicola Samorì, among the best-known Italian artists of today, on the first floor of the MAR, in dialogue with the Canova casts of the Gipsoteca and the art of Ravenna: earlier works and new ones made for the occasion.
Italo Rondinella. Ultima spiaggia
17 October 2026 - 7 February 2027
Imola · Museo San Domenico
The photographer Italo Rondinella has lived in Turkey since 2013 and documents the migrant route towards Greece, Cyprus and Bulgaria: photographs, sounds and objects found along the way tell the journey from the point of view of what is left behind.
Ravenna, Bassa Romagna and Comacchio
The mosaics and history of the Byzantine capital, Cervia's salt, Lugo, Bagnacavallo and the Po Delta.
MAR Museo d'Arte della città di Ravenna
Ravenna · via di Roma 13
The city's art museum, in the Loggetta Lombardesca next to the public gardens: the picture gallery, the collection of contemporary mosaics, the big temporary exhibitions and, since 2026, the permanent gallery devoted to the Ravenna-born photographer Paolo Roversi.
On now: Nicola Samorì. Supremalia
Museo Nazionale di Ravenna
Ravenna · via San Vitale 17
In the cloisters of the old Benedictine monastery of San Vitale, next to the basilica: Roman and Byzantine finds, ivories, ceramics, weapons and the 14th-century frescoes of Santa Chiara. It belongs to the National Museums of Ravenna together with the Mausoleum of Theodoric and Sant'Apollinare in Classe.
Museo Arcivescovile e Cappella di Sant'Andrea
Ravenna · piazza Arcivescovado 1
The museum of the Archbishop's Palace, with the Chapel of Sant'Andrea, one of Ravenna's early Christian monuments on the UNESCO list, and the ivory throne of Bishop Maximian. The same ticket opens San Vitale, the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, the Neonian Baptistery and Sant'Apollinare Nuovo.
Domus dei Tappeti di Pietra
Ravenna · via Barbiani 16, ingresso dalla chiesa di Sant'Eufemia
The mosaic floors of a Byzantine palace, found three metres below street level: you go down from the church of Sant'Eufemia and walk over the "stone carpets", among them the famous Dance of the Spirits of the Seasons.
Classis Ravenna, Museo della Città e del Territorio
Classe (Ravenna) · via Classense 29
The museum of Ravenna's history from its origins to the Middle Ages, in a former sugar factory in Classe, a short walk from the basilica of Sant'Apollinare and the ancient Roman port: finds, models and reconstructions, with games and trails for young people.
Museo Dante
Ravenna
In the zone of silence, next to Dante's Tomb: the museum tells the story of the poet, his exile and his death in Ravenna, and the devotion to his remains over the centuries. Nearby are the Casa Dante and the Quadrarco di Braccioforte.
Biblioteca Classense
Ravenna · via Baccarini 3
Ravenna's historic library, in the old Camaldolese abbey of Classe in the city centre: the 18th-century Aula Magna, manuscripts, incunabula and Dante collections. It hosts exhibitions of documents and prints on the history of the city.
On now: Parole ad altezza d'uomo. Alberto Orioli · Legato con amore in un volume · La rotonda del re
MUSA Museo del Sale
Cervia · via Nazario Sauro 24, Magazzino del sale Torre
Cervia's salt museum, in one of the historic warehouses on the harbour canal: the life of the salt workers, their tools and the story of the "sweet salt" the town was born from. The nearby salt pans complete the visit.
Museo Francesco Baracca
Lugo · via Francesco Baracca 65
In the birthplace of Francesco Baracca, born in Lugo in 1888, cavalry officer and the leading Italian flying ace of the Great War: memorabilia, documents and his aircraft. The prancing horse on his plane became the emblem of Ferrari.
Museo Civico delle Cappuccine
Bagnacavallo · via Vittorio Veneto 1/a
Bagnacavallo's civic museum, in the former convent of the Capuchin nuns: old, modern and contemporary art, the section devoted to the painter Enzo Morelli and a long tradition of photography and printmaking, with temporary exhibitions all year round.
Museo Delta Antico
Comacchio · via Agatopisto 2
In the heart of Comacchio, a short walk from the Trepponti, in the old Ospedale degli Infermi: more than two thousand finds tell the story of the Po Delta between Etruscans and Romans.
Musei Byron e del Risorgimento, Palazzo Guiccioli
Ravenna · via Cavour 54
The noble palace where Lord Byron lived as a guest of the Guiccioli counts, restored and opened as the museum of 19th-century Ravenna: the English poet and Teresa Gamba Guiccioli on one side, the Risorgimento in Ravenna on the other.
La Casa delle Marionette, Collezione Monticelli
Ravenna · vicolo Padenna 4/a
A short walk from Piazza del Popolo, the collection of the Monticelli family, puppeteers for generations: glove puppets, marionettes, sets and scripts of the puppet theatre of Emilia and Romagna.
Planetario di Ravenna
Ravenna · viale Santi Baldini 4/a
In the public gardens, the city's dome where the sky and the stars are projected, with talks, observation evenings and activities for schools. Outside are the sundial and the circle of Hipparchus.
MAS Museo Nazionale delle Attività Subacquee
Marina di Ravenna · piazzale Marinai d'Italia
The museum of the history of diving, founded in 1998 by the Historical Diving Society: diving suits, breathing sets, the slow-running torpedo known as the "pig", a decompression chamber and a bathysphere. Visits by booking.
Museo Etnografico Sgurì
Savarna (Ravenna) · via degli Orsini 4
In the farmhouse of Cà Segurini, the collection gathered over a lifetime by Romualdo Segurini: tools, objects and memories of the farming life of the Ravenna plain.
Casa Museo Vincenzo Monti
Alfonsine · via Passetto 3
The birthplace of the poet Vincenzo Monti, born here in 1754, translator of the Iliad: furniture and memories of his life between Ferrara, Rome and Milan.
Museo della Battaglia del Senio
Alfonsine · piazza della Resistenza 2
The winter of 1944-45 on the river Senio, the last front line before the Po plain: soldiers, civilians and partisans told through objects, photographs and documents.
Ecomuseo delle Erbe Palustri
Villanova di Bagnacavallo · via Ungaretti 1
The Bagnacavallo museum devoted to marsh plants: how reed, rush and sedge were gathered and turned into mats, bags, chairs and huts, with reconstructions of the wetland houses.
Museo Civico Luigi Varoli
Cotignola · corso Sforza 21
In Palazzo Sforza and in the house and studio of the painter and sculptor Luigi Varoli: the picture gallery, the papier-mâché works, the archaeology section and contemporary art exhibitions about the landscape.
Museo Civico San Rocco
Fusignano · via Monti 5
In the 18th-century San Rocco complex, once the town hospital: the very rich collection of devotional ceramic plaques, given by Sergio Baroni, that protected houses and stables in town and country.
Casa Rossini
Lugo
The house where Gioachino Rossini lived as a boy between 1802 and 1804, the years of his first music studies: a museum "of the teenage genius" made of sounds, documents and memories.
Museo della Frutticoltura Adolfo Bonvicini
Massa Lombarda · via Amendola 40
Massa Lombarda was one of the first centres of industrial fruit growing in Italy: tools, machines and documents tell the story of growing and trading fruit.
Museo Civico Carlo Venturini
Massa Lombarda · viale Zaganelli 2
In the Art Nouveau Puer Sacrum building, the precious collection that the doctor Carlo Venturini left to the town, between collecting and anthropology.
Museo della Vita Contadina in Romagna
San Pancrazio (Russi) · via XVII Novembre 2/a
The ethnographic museum run by the La Grama association: the home, field work, crafts and festivals of rural Romagna, with thousands of objects given by local families.
Museo Civico di Russi
Russi · Rocca, via Don Minzoni
In the fortress commissioned by Guido da Polenta and finished in 1371: the picture gallery, the archaeology section and the local history collections.
Villa Romana di Russi
Russi · via Fiumazzo 17
The remains of a large Roman farm villa in the countryside, with mosaic floors and the rooms of the farm: a state archaeological site, in the nature area next to the former quarry.
Galleria Maceo Casadei
Cervia · Palazzo Comunale
In the 18th-century town hall, the permanent display of the Forlì painter Maceo Casadei, who loved the landscape of Cervia, its salt pans and pine forest.
Casa Museo Remo Brindisi
Lido di Spina (Comacchio)
The seaside house designed by Nanda Vigo for the painter Remo Brindisi, who filled it with his collection of 20th-century art: Fontana, de Chirico, Picasso and many more, beside the design furniture.
Manifattura dei Marinati
Comacchio
The historic factory where Comacchio's eels are marinated, still working with its chimneys and fire rooms: you see how the fish of the lagoons became marinated fish in tins.
Faenza, Imola and the hills
The city of ceramics, the civic museums of Imola and the museums of Brisighella, Casola Valsenio and Castel Bolognese.
MIC Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche
Faenza
One of the largest ceramics museums in the world: from Faenza's Renaissance maiolica to the ancient ceramics of other continents, up to works by Picasso, Chagall and Matisse and the winners of the International Competition. In 2011 UNESCO recognised it as an expression of a culture of peace.
On now: Nordic Table Design. Una silenziosa rivoluzione femminile (1900-1970)
Pinacoteca Comunale di Faenza
Faenza · via Santa Maria dell'Angelo 9
The municipal picture gallery, one of the oldest in Italy: painting and sculpture from the 14th to the 20th century, with the works of the masters of Faenza and Romagna.
Museo Carlo Zauli
Faenza
In the workshop of the ceramic sculptor Carlo Zauli, in the centre of Faenza: his works, the studio left as it was and a programme of residencies, exhibitions and talks on contemporary art.
Musei Civici di Imola
Imola · Museo San Domenico, via Sacchi 4 · Palazzo Tozzoni, via Garibaldi 18
The Museo San Domenico, in the old convent, with picture gallery, archaeological and natural history collections and the temporary exhibitions, and Palazzo Tozzoni, the house of a noble family with its furniture and paintings still in place. The Rocca Sforzesca is closed for restoration.
Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali Domenico Malmerendi
Faenza · via Medaglie d'Oro 51
The zoological collections of the surveyor Domenico Malmerendi and the collections of fossils, minerals and insects of Romagna, with special attention to schools.
Palazzo Milzetti, Museo nazionale dell'età neoclassica in Romagna
Faenza · via Tonducci 15
A noble residence that has stayed as it was in the early 19th century, with rooms decorated by Felice Giani and his collaborators: the finest neoclassical interior in Romagna. A state museum, free on the first Sunday of the month.
Museo del Risorgimento e dell'Età contemporanea
Faenza · corso Garibaldi 2, Palazzo Laderchi
In the neoclassical Palazzo Laderchi: documents and memorabilia of the people of Faenza in the Risorgimento and the wars of the 20th century.
Museo Diocesano d'Arte Sacra
Faenza · Palazzo Vescovile, piazza XI Febbraio 10
In the bishop's palace, next to the cathedral: paintings, sculptures, silverware and vestments from the churches of the diocese of Faenza and Modigliana.
Casa Museo Raffaele Bendandi
Faenza · via Manara 17
The house and laboratory of the self-taught seismologist Raffaele Bendandi, the man who wanted to predict earthquakes: his hand-built seismographs, still working, and the planetarium painted on the cellar vault. Open a few days a month.
Museo Guerrino Tramonti
Faenza · via Fratelli Rosselli 8
The foundation and museum devoted to Guerrino Tramonti, a 20th-century painter and ceramist from Faenza: ceramics, paintings and drawings in his house and studio.
Museo Goffredo Gaeta
Faenza
In an old industrial building, the art workshop of the ceramist Goffredo Gaeta: you visit the workshop where work still goes on and the pieces the artist kept for himself.
Museo della Bottega Gatti
Faenza
In the historic rooms of the workshop founded in 1928, more than two hundred rare ceramics from the bottega, from the years of Futurism to the collaborations with contemporary artists.
Museo Civico Giuseppe Ugonia
Brisighella · piazzetta Porta Gabolo
The lithographs and drawings of Giuseppe Ugonia, who around 1900 portrayed Brisighella, the Lamone valley and its badlands. The same ticket opens the fortress.
Museo della Resistenza Ca' di Malanca
Brisighella · via Rio Corneto
In the hills above Brisighella, where in October 1944 the 36th Garibaldi Brigade fought the German army: documents, images and posters about the Resistance in Emilia-Romagna. Open on Sundays in spring and summer.
Giardino delle Erbe Augusto Rinaldi Ceroni
Casola Valsenio · via del Corso 6
A botanical garden in the hills with hundreds of officinal, aromatic and medicinal plants, born from the work of Augusto Rinaldi Ceroni: an open-air museum of scents.
Il Cardello, casa di Alfredo Oriani
Casola Valsenio · via il Cardello 15
In the hills of Casola, the house where the writer Alfredo Oriani lived and wrote all his works, once the guest house of an abbey: furniture, books and memories left in place.
Museo Civico di Castel Bolognese
Castel Bolognese · viale Umberto I 50
Opened in 1999, it brings together the room of the painter Giovanni Piancastelli, who gave his works to the town in 1912, and the antiquarium with archaeological finds and local history.
Museo e Pinacoteca Diocesani Pio IX
Imola · piazza Duomo 1
In the bishop's palace, the house museum of the bishops who became Popes Pius VII and Pius IX: a picture gallery from the 14th to the 19th century, liturgical textiles, coins, silverware and the carriage museum with two 18th-century berlins.
Museo Multimediale Checco Costa
Imola · Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, piazza Ayrton Senna 3
Inside the racetrack, the museum that tells seventy years of racing at Imola with memorabilia, videos and interactive stations: driving simulators and a pit stop challenge.
Forlì, Cesena and the valleys
Forlì's big exhibitions, Artusi, the Malatestiana, seafaring in Cesenatico, Pascoli in San Mauro and the museums of the valleys as far as the Rubicon.
Museo Civico San Domenico
Forlì · piazza Guido da Montefeltro 12
In the old Dominican convent, home of the civic picture gallery: works by Melozzo da Forlì, Guercino and Canova. Every year it hosts a major art exhibition, among the most visited in Italy.
On now: Spadini e Menzio. Sguardi in famiglia · Lee Miller. Opere 1930-1955
Casa Artusi
Forlimpopoli · via Andrea Costa 27
The centre devoted to Pellegrino Artusi, born in Forlimpopoli, author of "Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well": library, restaurant and cooking school of Italian home cooking.
Biblioteca Malatestiana
Cesena
The library founded by Malatesta Novello and opened in 1454: the old reading room, with the manuscripts still chained to the wooden desks, is the first civic library in Europe and is on the UNESCO Memory of the World register.
Museo della Marineria
Cesenatico · via Armellini 18
The museum of Adriatic seafaring, in two parts: a hall with the boats, sails and tools of the fishermen and, on the canal harbour designed by Leonardo, the floating section with the old colourful sailing boats.
Casa Moretti
Cesenatico · via Marino Moretti 5
The house of the writer Marino Moretti on the canal harbour, left as it was: books, letters, photographs and the mementos of more than ninety years of the poet's life.
Palazzo Romagnoli, Collezioni del Novecento e Collezione Verzocchi
Forlì · via Albicini 12
Forlì's 20th-century art collections: the Verzocchi Collection, more than seventy paintings on the theme of work commissioned in 1949-50 from the leading Italian painters, and the civic 20th-century collections, from Adolfo Wildt to the artists of Romagna.
Palazzo del Merenda: Armeria Albicini, Museo Archeologico e Museo Etnografico
Forlì · corso della Repubblica 72
The city's old hospital with the Saffi library and three civic collections: the Albicini armoury, the Antonio Santarelli Archaeological Museum with finds from the area and the Benedetto Pergoli Ethnographic Museum on the folk traditions of Romagna.
Palazzo Gaddi: Museo del Risorgimento e Museo Romagnolo del Teatro
Forlì · corso Garibaldi 96
A palace of medieval origin on the Via Emilia with two civic museums: Forlì's Risorgimento from Napoleon to 1945 and the theatre and music life of Romagna, with instruments, costumes and memories of singers.
Museo Ornitologico Ferrante Foschi
Forlì · via Pedriali 12, Palazzo Numai
On the ground floor of Palazzo Numai, a large collection of mounted birds, with the species of Romagna and of the whole world shown in their habitats.
Museo Storico Dante Foschi
Forlì · via Maroncelli 3, Casa del Mutilato
In the Casa del Mutilato, the museum of Italian military history devoted to the memory of the war disabled: uniforms, weapons, memorabilia and documents from the Risorgimento to the Second World War.
Casa Museo Villa Saffi
San Varano (Forlì) · via Firenze 164
The country villa of the patriot Aurelio Saffi, triumvir of the Roman Republic with Mazzini, where he lived with his wife Giorgina Craufurd: rooms, furniture and the park.
Museo Amici del Treno
Forlì
The space of railway enthusiasts who volunteer there: equipment, signals and telephones from the 47 railway installations of Romagna, brought back to working order, and large model railways.
Museo dei Mestieri
Vecchiazzano (Forlì) · via Veclezio 50/e
Giovanni Severi's collection: some sixty thousand work tools from the 10th to the 20th century for about three hundred and twenty trades, with documents, photos and period magazines. Visits by booking.
Museo del Plaustro
Villagrappa (Forlì) · via del Prete 5
The painted and carved farm carts of the Via Emilia, from Rimini to Reggio Emilia, read through their symbols: a piece of the farming and craft culture of the plain.
Museo Interreligioso
Bertinoro · Rocca vescovile
In the 12th-century dungeons and cistern of the Bertinoro fortress, the only Italian museum devoted to the dialogue between Judaism, Christianity and Islam, founded in 2005.
Museo Archeologico di Cesena
Cesena · via Montalti 6
On the ground floor of the Malatestiana Library building: finds from the Cesena area from prehistory to Roman times and the Renaissance.
Pinacoteca Comunale di Cesena
Cesena · via Aldini 26, ex convento di San Biagio
In the former convent of San Biagio, the old, modern and contemporary art of Cesena's civic collections.
Galleria dei Dipinti Antichi della Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Cesena
Cesena · corso Garibaldi 18
The painting collection of the Foundation and of the old savings bank, mostly from the schools of Emilia and Romagna, from the Renaissance to the 18th century.
Casa Museo Renato Serra
Cesena · viale Carducci 29
The birthplace of the critic and writer Renato Serra, killed in the war in 1915: the library, the study and the rooms as he left them.
Museo Diocesano e della Cattedrale
Cesena · cappella di San Tobia, corso Mazzini
In the chapel of San Tobia, from 1528, on the side of the cathedral: paintings, sculptures, goldsmiths' work and vestments of the diocese of Cesena and Sarsina.
Museo dell'Ecologia
Cesena · piazza Zangheri 6
In the Loggetta Veneziana and the Rocchetta di Piazza, the wildlife of the Savio valley from the sea to the ridge, shown by habitat.
Museo della Centuriazione
San Giorgio (Cesena) · via Fratelli Latini 24
How the Romans divided the countryside into a grid of roads and square fields, the centuriation that can still be read today in the landscape between Cesena and the sea.
Musicalia, Museo della Musica Meccanica
Cesena · Villa Silvia Carducci, via Lizzano 1241
In the rooms of Villa Silvia, where Carducci stayed, five centuries of instruments that play by themselves: music boxes, barrel organs, player pianos and the great Gavioli fair organ, all working.
Casa dell'Upupa, casa museo di Ilario Fioravanti
Sorrivoli (Roncofreddo)
The house, studio and garden in the hills where Ilario Fioravanti, architect, sculptor and painter, lived and worked: his terracottas in the landscape around Cesena. Guided visits by booking.
Spazio Pantani
Cesenatico
The museum of Marco Pantani, opened in 2006 by his family and the Foundation: bicycles, jerseys, trophies and images of the 1998 Giro and Tour champion. The proceeds go to charity.
Galleria Comunale Leonardo da Vinci
Cesenatico
The town's art gallery in the centre of Cesenatico, with temporary exhibitions of painting, photography and sculpture all year round.
MAF Museo Archeologico Tobia Aldini
Forlimpopoli · Rocca
In the Forlimpopoli fortress: daily life, funeral rites and building techniques from prehistory to the Renaissance, with the amphorae of Roman Forum Popili.
Collezione Guzzi Brunelli
Forlimpopoli
A private collection of historic Moto Guzzi motorcycles, which began in 1989 with an old 1953 Falcone received in payment of a debt.
Acquedotto Spinadello
Forlimpopoli
The early 20th-century waterworks on the river Ronco, restored and opened as a place to learn about water and its land.
Fondazione Tito Balestra
Longiano · Castello Malatestiano, piazza Malatestiana 1
In the Malatesta castle, the collection of the poet Tito Balestra: one of the richest 20th-century art collections in the region, with Morandi, Guttuso, Mafai, Rosai and Maccari.
Museo Italiano della Ghisa
Longiano · via Santa Maria 18/a e via Emilia 1626
Cast-iron street lamps, drinking fountains, benches and railings from Italian cities, saved and restored by the Neri Foundation: two sites, one in a former church in the old town and a large one on the Via Emilia.
Museo d'Arte Sacra
Longiano · Oratorio di San Giuseppe
In the 18th-century oratory of San Giuseppe, opened in 1989 by the town and the diocese: paintings, sculptures and sacred furnishings from the churches of Longiano.
Museo Civico di Ecologia
Meldola
Meldola's natural history museum on the habitats of Romagna, from the rivers to the hills, with courses and field trips.
Museo del Baco da Seta Ciro Ronchi
Meldola
Meldola was a silk town: the museum tells of silkworm rearing, reeling and weaving, which for centuries gave work to the families of the Bidente valley.
Museo Civico Don Giovanni Verità
Modigliana · via Garibaldi 30
The birthplace of Don Giovanni Verità, the patriot priest who in 1849 helped Garibaldi escape: memories of the Risorgimento and of the history of Modigliana.
Pinacoteca Civica Silvestro Lega
Modigliana
The picture gallery of the home town of Silvestro Lega, one of the leading Macchiaioli painters: works by him and by the artists who worked with him.
Museo Benedetta Bianchi Porro
Dovadola
In Palazzo Raineri Biscia, the letters of Benedetta Bianchi Porro, born in Dovadola in 1936 and beatified, with books about her and works by artists inspired by her life.
Museo Civico Mons. Domenico Mambrini
Galeata
Finds from ancient Mevaniola, a Roman town in the upper Bidente valley, and from the palace attributed to the Gothic king Theodoric excavated near Galeata.
Museo della Fauna, dell'Acqua e dei Sensi
Premilcuore · via Roma 36
A visitor centre of the Casentinesi Forests National Park: the wildlife of the Romagna ridge and the water of its streams, with displays to touch and listen to.
IDRO Ecomuseo delle Acque di Ridracoli
Ridracoli (Bagno di Romagna)
At the foot of the great Ridracoli dam, in the Casentinesi Forests park: the museum of the water that supplies Romagna, with the dam visit and boat trips on the lake.
Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea Vero Stoppioni
Santa Sofia
Santa Sofia's civic gallery with the works of the Campigna Prize, which brings contemporary Italian painters and sculptors to the valley.
Museo del Fronte Rubicone '44
Roncofreddo
Autumn 1944 on the Rubicon front, when the Gothic Line crossed these hills: finds, photographs and stories of soldiers and civilians, curated by the Historical Institute of the Resistance.
Museo Casa Pascoli
San Mauro Pascoli · via Pascoli 46
The birthplace of Giovanni Pascoli, a national monument since 1924: the original furniture, autograph letters, family photographs and the poet's garden.
Villa Torlonia, Museo multimediale Pascoli
San Mauro Pascoli
The estate of the Torlonia princes where Pascoli's father was steward, the "Torre": in the cellars a multimedia museum takes you inside the poems with sounds, voices and images.
Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Sarsina
Sarsina · via Cesio Sabino 39
One of the largest Roman collections in the region: the funerary monuments of the necropolis of Sarsina, Plautus' home town, with the great mausoleum of Rufus, mosaics and statues of eastern gods.
Museo Diocesano d'Arte Sacra
Sarsina · piazza Plauto 2, Palazzo vescovile
On the first floor of the bishop's palace, opened in 1987: paintings, sculptures, goldsmiths' work and vestments of the diocese, next to the basilica of San Vicinio.
Museo Archeologico del Compito
Savignano sul Rubicone
The museum of the Compito, a Roman crossroads on the Via Emilia: pre-Roman and Roman finds, the consular bridge and an open-air trail among the parish churches of the area.
Museo di Arte Povera
Sogliano al Rubicone · Palazzo della Cultura
In the Palazzo della Cultura, jewels made of paper: chromolithographs, lithographs from the 18th century on, art books and facsimiles.
Museo del Disco d'Epoca
Sogliano al Rubicone · Palazzo della Cultura
A hundred and fifty years of recorded music in frescoed rooms: wax cylinders, Bakelite records, working gramophones and records cut on X-ray film, out of more than sixty thousand items.
Le raccolte di Sogliano: Leonardo, Sottosuolo, Linea Christa, Formaggio di Fossa
Sogliano al Rubicone
Sogliano has a small constellation of museums: Leonardo da Vinci and Romagna, MUSO on the underground and its mines, the Linea Christa on the Gothic Line, the pit-aged cheese, the Veggiani geological collection and the house of the poet Venanzio Reali in Montetiffi.
Rimini, the Riviera and Valconca
Roman Rimini and Fellini's Rimini, contemporary art, Bellaria, Riccione, Cattolica and the villages of the Valconca.
Museo della Città e Domus del Chirurgo
Rimini · via Luigi Tonini 1 · piazza Ferrari
The city museum in the old Jesuit college, from prehistory and Roman Rimini to the Renaissance, with Giovanni Bellini's Pietà. Close by, the Domus del Chirurgo: the house of a Roman doctor with its mosaics and the richest set of surgical instruments come down to us from antiquity.
On now: Il codice della Passione. Bellini e Mantegna allo specchio
Fellini Museum
Rimini · Castel Sismondo, piazza Malatesta, Palazzo del Fulgor
The museum devoted to Federico Fellini, born in Rimini, in three places in the centre: Castel Sismondo, Piazza Malatesta joining them and Palazzo del Fulgor, with the cinema of "Amarcord". Drawings, costumes, films and immersive rooms.
On now: Copertine EXTRA
PART Palazzi dell'Arte Rimini
Rimini · piazza Cavour 26
Rimini's gallery of modern and contemporary art in the two medieval palaces on Piazza Cavour, the Arengo and the Podestà, with a sculpture garden behind them.
Museo degli Sguardi
Rimini · Covignano, via delle Grazie 12
On the Covignano hill above Rimini: the city's ethnographic collections, with art and everyday objects from Africa, the Americas and Oceania.
Parco Tematico e Museo dell'Aviazione
Rimini · via Santa Aquilina 58
On the first hills behind Rimini, almost eighty thousand square metres in the open air with more than forty aircraft, helicopters and military vehicles, plus the model aircraft museum. Open since 1995.
Biblioteca Civica Gambalunga
Rimini · via Gambalunga 27
One of the first public libraries in Italy, opened in 1619 in the palace of the jurist Alessandro Gambalunga: 17th-century reading rooms, manuscripts, incunabula and exhibitions of documents.
Museo del Territorio Luigi Ghirotti
Riccione
Riccione's archaeological museum: finds from prehistory to Roman times from the Conca valley and the coast, with fossils and the remains of the animals that lived here.
Villa Franceschi, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
Riccione
An Art Nouveau villa in the heart of Riccione with the town's 20th-century art collection and temporary exhibitions with free entry.
Galleria Comunale Santa Croce
Cattolica
Cattolica's town art gallery, with temporary art and photography exhibitions during the year.
Museo della Regina
Cattolica · via Pascoli
Cattolica's civic museum, in the old pilgrims' hospice: the archaeology section on Roman Cattolica along the Via Flaminia and the section on seafaring and fishing.
La Storia del Sic, Museo Marco Simoncelli
Coriano
The museum devoted to Marco Simoncelli, the rider from Coriano who was 250cc world champion in 2008: bikes, helmets, leathers and memories of his career.
Casa Rossa di Alfredo Panzini
Bellaria Igea Marina
The red house by the sea where the writer Alfredo Panzini spent his summers and set many of his pages: rooms, books and memories.
Museo Radio d'Epoca
Bellaria Igea Marina
A collection of vintage radios, from the valve sets of the early 20th century to transistors.
Noi. Museo della Storia e della Memoria
Bellaria Igea Marina
The museum of the Bellaria Igea Marina community: the story of the fishing village that became a seaside resort, told with objects, photographs and memories.
Museo della Linea dei Goti
Montegridolfo
At the foot of the Montegridolfo castle, finds, accounts and background on the Gothic Line, which in the summer of 1944 ran right through here.
Piadina Experience
San Giovanni in Marignano
A multimedia and theatrical walk through the history of the piadina, from ancient flatbreads to today's Romagna, ending with a piadina made in front of you.
Museo di Storia Naturale del Centro Studi Naturalistici Valconca
San Giovanni in Marignano · via Macello 26/b
The natural history collections of the volunteers of the Valconca study centre: animals, insects, shells and fossils of the Conca valley.
Museo di Saludecio e del Beato Amato
Saludecio · piazza Santo Amato 1
In the Malatesta bastion next to the church, opened in 2001: the history of the village and the sacred art linked to Saint Amato Ronconi.
Marecchia Valley
Tonino Guerra in Santarcangelo and Pennabilli, the Etruscans of Verucchio, the sacred art of San Leo and the sulphur mine of Perticara.
Museo Tonino Guerra
Santarcangelo di Romagna · via della Costa 15
In the home town of Tonino Guerra, poet and screenwriter for Fellini and Antonioni: more than sixty works including paintings, sculptures, ceramics and tapestries, and a section with his films.
MET Museo degli Usi e Costumi della Gente di Romagna
Santarcangelo di Romagna
The ethnographic museum of Romagna: field work, crafts, festivals, rust-printed cloths and home life. It is closed for works today, but its storehouse opens to the public on the second Sunday of the month.
MUSAS Museo Storico Archeologico
Santarcangelo di Romagna · Palazzo Cenci
In Palazzo Cenci, the history of Santarcangelo from prehistory to the 20th century: finds from the Roman kilns, the picture gallery with Renaissance works and the section on Pope Clement XIV, born here.
Museo del Bottone
Santarcangelo di Romagna · via della Costa 11
Giorgio Gallavotti's collection: some fifteen thousand buttons from more than sixty countries, from 1200 BC to today, telling the story of fashions, crafts and history.
Museo Civico Archeologico di Verucchio
Verucchio · via Sant'Agostino 14
In the former convent of Sant'Agostino, the treasures of the Villanovan and Etruscan cemeteries of the 9th to 7th century BC: amber, bronzes, textiles and the famous carved wooden throne.
Mateureka Museo del Calcolo
Pennabilli · piazza Garibaldi 1
In the old town hall, the history of calculation and mathematics from antiquity to the computer: abacuses, slide rules, calculating machines and lab rooms to play with numbers.
Museo Diocesano del Montefeltro A. Bergamaschi
Pennabilli · piazza Sant'Agostino, Palazzo Bocchi
In Palazzo Bocchi next to the sanctuary of the Madonna delle Grazie, founded in 1962: paintings, sculptures, goldsmiths' work and manuscripts from the churches of the Montefeltro.
Museo Naturalistico del Parco Sasso Simone e Simoncello
Pennabilli · via dei Tigli 5/a
The park's visitor centre: dioramas with the most typical animals of the Marecchia valley and the Montefeltro, from the wolf to the birds of prey, and information for hikes.
Il Mondo di Tonino Guerra
Pennabilli
The village where the poet and screenwriter Tonino Guerra spent his last years is scattered with his works: the Garden of Forgotten Fruits, the Refuge of Abandoned Madonnas and the house museum run by the association.
Sulphur, Museo Storico Minerario di Perticara
Perticara (Novafeltria) · via Decio Raggi 3
In the old sulphur mine of Perticara, one of the largest in Europe: the power station, the lamp room and the workshops tell the life of the miners, with a reconstructed tunnel and the Vittoria shaft.
Museo Gualtieri, lo Splendore del Reale
Talamello
The museum devoted to the painter Fernando Gualtieri, an artist of contemporary realism linked to Talamello, with a large collection of his works.
Museo d'Arte Sacra di San Leo
San Leo · Palazzo Mediceo, piazza Dante 14
On the main floor of the Palazzo Mediceo, built in 1517-1523: paintings, sculptures and sacred furnishings of the Montefeltro, a few steps from the Romanesque parish church and cathedral.
San Marino
The State museums of the Republic on Mount Titano and the private museums of the old town, from ancient weapons to curiosities.
Museo di Stato di San Marino
San Marino · Palazzo Pergami Belluzzi
The museum of the Republic, opened in 1899, in the historic centre: local archaeology, art, coins and San Marino stamps over four floors. The same body runs the Towers, the Palazzo Pubblico and the San Francesco gallery.
Galleria Nazionale San Marino
San Marino · Logge dei Volontari, Giardino dei Liburni
The Republic's museum of modern and contemporary art, in the Logge dei Volontari: more than a thousand 20th-century works, from Guttuso and Vedova to Cucchi, many from the San Marino Biennials of the 1950s and 60s.
Museo Pinacoteca San Francesco
San Marino
Next to the 14th-century church of San Francesco: paintings from the 14th to the 17th century and sacred objects from the Franciscan convent.
Palazzo Pubblico
San Marino · piazza della Libertà
The seat of government, built between 1884 and 1894 and restored by Gae Aulenti: you visit the hall of the Great and General Council and the rooms of the Captains Regent.
Museo delle Armi Antiche
San Marino · Seconda Torre, la Cesta
On the highest peak of the Titano, in the Cesta tower: blades, firearms and armour from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. The tower is closed for works today: check the site first.
Museo del Francobollo e della Moneta
Borgo Maggiore (San Marino)
All the stamps and coins issued by the Republic since 1877, with sketches and printing proofs: San Marino is a name known to collectors all over the world.
Museo dell'Emigrante
San Marino · ex monastero di Santa Chiara
The story of the people of San Marino who left for the world in the 19th and 20th centuries, to France, Belgium, the United States and Argentina: letters, documents, photographs and objects from their journeys.
Museo delle Cere
San Marino
Open since 1966: life-size historical figures in wax, scenes from the history of San Marino and Italy.
Museo della Tortura
San Marino
A collection of instruments of torture and punishment from the Middle Ages to modern times, on a route that ends on human rights. Not for young children.
Museo delle Curiosità
San Marino
Strange objects, records and bizarre inventions from all over the world and every age: a museum to laugh and wonder at.
Museo dei Vampiri e Licantropi
San Marino
Legends, history and literature of vampires and werewolves, with panels, objects and multimedia, plus an audio guide in Italian and English.
Opening hours, closing days and tickets change with the season and with the exhibitions: always look at the official site before you go. The information comes from the sites of the museums and of the tourist offices.
A day among the museums
Ravenna, Faenza and Rimini in one day without thinking about parking or train times: for the family, a school class or a group, with a chauffeured transfer.