Museums

Domus Romana

Via Cesare Battisti 15 Lucca

MuSA - Virtual Museum of Sculpture and Architecture

Via Sant'Agostino 61 Pietrasanta

Museo Puccini a Celle

via Meletori 27

Orecchiella Park Visitor Center

Parco dell'Orecchiella

Puccini Museum - Birthplace

Corte S. Lorenzo, 9 lucca

Archaeological collection

Via Umberto I borgo a mozzano

The archaeological collection is housed at present in the basement of the Municipality building; it is composed of finds from the Borgo a Mozzano area and its surroundings. Enriched by cartographic...

Museum of Work and Popular Traditions of Historical Versilia

Viale L. Amadei, 230

The Historical Museum of Peasantry and Versilian Folk Traditions is housed in Seravezza's Palazzo Mediceo, a mansion built on behalf of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici of Florence and projected by...

Botanical Garden of Lucca

Via del Giardino Botanico 14

Established in 1820, the Botanical Garden of Lucca is a 2 hectare garden with a collection of several plants of scientific and naturalistic value. The "Arboretum" is the largest section of...

Cabinet of Natural History of the Machiavelli High School

Via degli Asili, 35 lucca

In the Natural History Collection of the Liceo Machiavelli we can see exhibited on a surface of roughly 400 square metres important mineralogical, palaeontological and malacological collections, as...

Casa Museo Giovanni Pascoli

Via di Mezzo, 11, 55051 Barga LU

The poet Giovanni Pascoli, in search of a quiet, peaceful place where to live and write his poems, chose Castelvecchio di Barga. He moved there in October 1895 with his sister Maria and his dog...

Civic Archaeological Museum of Camaiore

Via Vittorio Emanuele, 181 camaiore

The Civic Archaeological Museum of Camaiore, located in Piazza Francigena, was inaugurated on May 14th, 2016 after having been subjected during these years of a long work of restructuring, functional...

Civica Raccolta di Ceramiche Rinascimentali

P.zza S. Giacomo camporgiano

The museum is housed in the main tower of the Rocca di Camporgiano. The origin of this monumental rocca is Medieval; in 1446 it passed from the Malaspina family to the Dukes of Este who gave it its...

Civici Musei di Villa Paolina: Museo Archeologico Alberto Carlo Blanc, Museo degli Stumenti Musicali Giovanni Ciuffreda.

Villa Paolina, Via Machiavelli, 2 viareggio

The municipal museums of Villa Paolina are housed in one of the most remarkable buildings in town: the summer residence of Paolina Borghese Bonaparte. Built around 1822 on a project of Giovanni...

Community and Business Museum

Via 4 Novembre, 70, 55040 Levigliani LU

Lavorare liberi is a genuine community museum conserving the history of one place: Levigliani in Stazzema. This cultural institution bases it work on the special relationship between citizens and...

Eugenio Barsanti Museum

Pietrasanta, c/o Palazzo via Marzocco

To discover an extraordinary invention, you have to experiment for a long time. This was the scientific work of spiritual father Eugenio Barsanti, (1821-1864), citizen of Pietrasanta, inventor...

Galleria d'arte moderna e contemporanea (GAMC)

Palazzo delle Muse, piazza Mazzini

The Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art Lorenzo Viani (GAMC), set up in the heart of the city, inside the historic Palazzo delle Muse, has a collection of over 3000 works by around 750...

Historical Museum of the Resistance

Via Coletti 22 stazzema

On the 19th September 1991 the Tuscan Regional Centre for the Resistance Movement chose S. Anna di Stazzema as seat of the Historical Museum of the "Resistenza". A visit gives an essential,...

Lu.C.C.A. Lucca Center of Contemporary Art

Via della Fratta, 36, 55100 Lucca L

The Lu.C.C.A. (Lucca Center of Contemporary Art) is hosted in the Palazzo Boccella, an ancient building in the historic centre of Lucca, near the famous Piazza del Mercato (the square of the ancient...

Mostra Archeologica Permanente

Via Cardinale Pacini 20

The preparation of the archaeological exhibition of Capannori in September 1987 was the first step towards the creation of an archaeological documentation centre on this area closely linked to the...

Mostra di Attrezzi di Vita Contadina

Via di Sottomonte

The cultural society "La Ruota" (so called after the water wheel used for irrigating in the Plain of Lucca) is active in the southern part of Capannori Municipality, an area that includes...

Museo Archeologico del Territorio della Garfagnana

Piazzetta Ariosto castelnuovo garfagnana

Seat of the municipality until the Second World War, the original structure of the rocca of Castelnuovo Garfagnana was heavily damaged during the 1944 bombings. At present the rocca houses...

Museo Archeologico Versiliese

Piazza Duomo, Pietrasanta

Since its foundation in 1968 the Museum has been housed at Palazzo Moroni in the Piazza del Duomo of Pietrasanta. On the outside the building has a double flight of stairs and is among the most...

Museo Casa Natale Giosuè Carducci

via Valdicastello, loc. Valdicastello Carducci, Pietrasanta

Giosuè Carducci, the famous Italian poet who received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1906, was born in Valdicastello on the 27th July 1835. The family's house was composed of four rooms...

Museo Casa-Atelier di Ugo Guidi

Via M. Civitali, 33

The "Museo Casa-Atelier di Ugo Guidi" was inaugurated in 2005 in Vittoria Apuana, in the district of Forte dei Marmi. The Museum witnesses the liveliness of the Versilia artistic milieu...

Museo Civico del Territorio Antonio Mordini

Piazza dell´Arringo del Duomo barga

The Museum is located in the evocative rooms of Palazzo Pretorio, once residence of Barga Commissari and Podestà; visiting them we can become familiar with the Barga region and its natural,...

Museo d'Arte Sacra

Via IV Novembre, 71 camaiore

In 1936, in a XVIIth century building, seat of the Confraternita di San Michele e San Vincenzo, the Museum of Sacred Art was set up. In origin it was simply a place where paintings, vestments, altar...

Museo dei Bozzetti

Via S. Agostino 1 pietrasanta

In the 70's thorough restoration works were carried out on the former convent of S. Agostino, built in the XVIth century next to an existing XIIIth century church; the entire complex was restored...

Museo del Carnevale

Via Santa Maria Goretti viareggio

The Carnival Museum is located inside the new complex of the "Carnival Citadel", designed by arch. Francesco Tomassi. The museum offers visitors the opportunity to learn more about the...

Museo del Castagno

Via Fratta - Colognora - Val di Roggio

The Chestnut Museum was set up by volunteers to provide evidence for and explain the historical importance of the chestnut tree in the Valle di Roggio area. There is evidence of chestnut cultivation...

Museo del Risorgimento

Palazzo Ducale, Cortile degli Svizzeri, 6 lucca

The Risorgimento Museum occupies several rooms of the Palazzo Ducale and illustrates the period of Italian history between 1821 and WWI, known as Risorgimento, through a series of interesting...

Museo della Cattedrale

via dell´Arcivescovado lucca

Founded by the Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca and opened at the end of 1922, the Museum is housed in a complex consisting of a XIIIth century tower house, a XVIth century church and a XIVth century main...

Museo della Figurina di Gesso e dell'Emigrazione

Via del Mangano, 17 coreglia antelminelli

The Museum of Plaster Statuettes and Emigration, unique in its kind, explains the art of modelling plaster and the associated phenomenon of the statuette makers emigration from their homes in the mid...

Museo della Marineria

via Peschiera 9 (lungo canale est)

The museum was projected in 1920 but it has been carried out just in 2006 in the historic Fish Market building along the bank of Burlamacca canal. The town of Viareggio has confided to this museum...

Museo della Satira e della Caricatura

Piazza Garibaldi forte dei marmi

The Forte dei Marmi Museum of satire and caricatures is housed in the Forte di Leopoldo I; it continues the idea of the Satira Politica Prize and has become a centre of conservation, collection and...

Museo dell’Identità dell’Alta Garfagnana “Olimpio Cammelli”

Minucciano LU

The museum, which opened May 16th, 2009, is located next to the "Old Church", on top of "Colle di Casa" where once stood the "Castle" and the "Old Country...

Museo d’Arte Sacra – Benabbio

Piazza Santa Maria 2, 55022 Benabbio LU Italia

Set up in the former Oratory of the Holy Trinity, the Museum was inaugurated in 2010 to preserve, enhance and promote knowledge of the historical and artistic heritage from the Church of Santa Maria...

Museo Etnografico Don Luigi Pellegrini

via del Voltone, 14 san pellegrino garfagnana

The Don Luigi Pellegrini Ethnographic Museum is housed in the medieval Hospital of San Pellegrino (XIth - XIIth century) where travellers and pilgrims crossing the Apennine along this route could...

Museo Italiano dell’Immaginario Folklorico

Via Ducale 4, San Michele Piazza al Serchio – Lucca

The Museo Italiano dell'Immaginario Folklorico collects and keeps unpublished tales of the oral tradition of our territory and the other Italian regions. People can visit...

Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Mansi

Palazzo Mansi Via Galli Tassi, 43

The National Museum of Palazzo Mansi is housed in one of the most luxurious mansions of the town, built between the end of XVIth and the beginning of the XVIIth century. The Mansi family bought the...

Museo Nazionale di Villa Guinigi

Via della Quarquonia lucca

The National Museum of Villa Guinigi is in one of the most ancient and illustrious town palaces. Paolo Guinigi, lord of Lucca, built his residence just outside the XIIIth century walls, towards Porta...

Museo Paolo Cresci per la Storia dell'Emigrazione Italiana

via Vittorio Emanuele, n. 3 Lucca

The Museum, that is in the Palazzo Ducale of Lucca, derives the name from the florentine photographer and collector Paolo Cresci. It preserves and shows an extraordinary and varied documentary...

Museo Storico della Liberazione 1943 - 1945

Palazzo Guinigi, Via S. Andrea, 43

The Historical Museum of the War of Liberation was founded in 1988 as a joint initiative of the members of the "Associazione Toscana Volontari della Libertà" and those of the...

Museo Villa Puccini

Villa Puccini, Belvedere Puccini- Torre del Lago (Lucca)

Nel 1891 Giacomo Puccini rented a simple tower-house on the lake of Massaciuccoli. From that moment Torre del Lago became for Puccini a refuge where he found the inspiration for his most famous...

Museum of the Mill of Menicone

Loc. Menicone, n. 2A, S. Martino in Freddana, Pescaglia

The museum exhibits manual machine, rock grindstones, water wheels and other old tools used for preparing the cereals.The Museum of the Mill of Menicone occupies the mill itself and is run by the...

Orto Botanico

Via V. Emanuele 7 Castelnuovo Garfagnana

Opened in 1984 thanks to the Mountain Community of Garfagnana, the "Pania di Corfino" botanical garden contains the most characteristic species of plants from the Orecchiella Natural Park....

Paper museum

Piazza della Croce n° 1 Pietrabuona - Pescia - (PT) - 51017

The museum is located in Piazza della Croce, 1st in Pietrabuona, the first of the "castellas" of Valleriana, about 3 km from Pescia. It was inaugurated in 1996, is managed by the...

Pavilion

via Pietra a Padule massarosa

On the slopes of Mount Aquilata, in a beautiful panoramic position overlooking Lake Massaciuccoli, are the rests of a Roman Villa built in the I century a.D.; in particular you can see the impressive...

Per un Museo Contadino della Piana

Via Romana Ovest, 16

The aim of the cultural society "Ponte", created in 1985 in Capannori, is to discover, restore, exhibit and make available all traces of the past peasant life in the Plain of Lucca. In the...

Permanent Archaeological Exhibition of the Territory, Palazzo Pelliccioni-Marazzini

via Giovanni Poli San Romano Garfagnana

The Pelliccioni-Marazzini palace, jewel of the town of San Romano, is one of the most significant example of local architecture. Characterized from a double row of typical roofs with arch, it...

Poets and musicians between nineteenth and twentieth century

Among the most famous artists that have lived in and around Lucca are Giacomo Puccini, Giovanni Pascoli, Giosuè Carducci and Gabriele D'Annunzio; today the places where they were born and...

Porcari Museum - virtual museum of the Porcari community

Piazza F. Orsi, 1 Porcari

The Porcari Museum - virtual museum of the Porcari community, came about with the aim of showcasing the history and traditions of the Porcari municipality online. A totally virtual space that allows...

Rocca of Camporgiano

Via della Rocca, 2, 55031 Camporgiano LU

The rocca of Camporgiano is on a high rock overlooking one of the historically most important sections of the road network in the upper Serchio valley. It is closely connected and within sight of...

Santa Maria Corteorlandini alias Santa Maria Nera

Lucca, Italia

This old church, rebuilt at the end of the 12th century, was again remodelled from the late 16th century, when a newly-formed and extremely active religious Congregation, known today as the Regular...

Stronghold of Forte dei Marmi

Fortino di Forte dei Marmi

Situated on the coast in the centre of Versilia, Forte dei Marmi was founded by Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo at the end of the eighteenth century with two functions, of customs and of defence. As its...

The territory of Stazzema

Surrounded by the Apuan Alps, Stazzema is in a panoramic position allowing us to admire the many scattered villages on the mountain slopes, that were inhabited since remote antiquity as the discovery...

Ugo Guidi Museum - Other bodies, bodies of others

4th - 29th August

Museo Ugo Guidi

The narration and self-narration path Bodies Other, Other Bodies is scheduled in August 2020 at the Garden of the Ugo Guidi Museum of Vittoria Apuana, in Forte dei Marmi. The events have as their...

Villa Guinigi

Via della Quarquonia, 4 55100 Lucca LU Italia

Villa Guingi "nei Borghi" was the residence of the Lord of Lucca, Paolo Guinigi and has the forms of a royal abode. The house has been developed in width, with a spacious portico supported...