AMICO MUSEO/NOTTE DEI MUSEI – Musei Nazionali Lucca

On 21 May,  the museums of alla of Europe will be open with night time, for the Night of Museums.

"Visions of Lucca between reality and fantasy,"
The guided tour will be dedicated to the transformation of the landscape by man, and the close relationship that binds centuries the city of Lucca to its river. The second part will focus on landscape art from the Gothic to the Renaissance and the Renaissance to the seventeenth century, illustrating, with a selection of works from our collection, as the natural element has taken on a different meaning, both decorative and symbolic, over the centuries, and how today allows us to read and understand more deeply the paintings and their time.

Palazzo Mansi National Museum

"The representative Palace"
The Museum is an exemplary document of the homes of the merchants of Lucca. Transformed in the late seventeenth century by the Mansi family that owned, in "official palace" and set according to the prevailing Baroque style, it is now set up as an important example of "museum in a museum."

The organized tours of the museum staff, are included in the cost of admission.