MUSEO DEL VETRO E DELL’ARTE
MUSEO DEL VETRO E DELL’ARTE
VETRARIA IN ALTARE
Up until the twelfth century, Altare was
famous for the skill of its glassmakers, whose
popularity and reputation were on a par with
those of Murano all over Europe. «Altare
means Glass,» and therefore craftsmanship, art
and culture: a heritage of priceless value to be
preserved, defended and displayed with pride.
While the ancient traditions are kept alive in a
number of workshops, the activity of
promotion and cultural research is entrusted to
the Istituto per lo Studio del Vetro e dell’Arte
Vetraria, which curates the museum and its collection of historic glasswork.
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MUSEO «MANLIO TRUCCO» -ALBISOLA
The Museo Civico della Ceramica «Manlio
Trucco» in Albisola Superiore houses and
displays collections of locally-made antique
pottery, from Savona and Albisola. They
include a group of around forty majolica
pharmacy vessels with blue monochrome
decorations, dating from the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries, on loan from the
administration of the Civil Hospitals of Genoa.
Another bequest consists of a collection of
around eighty pots, dating from the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries, including eighteenth-century
majolica ware from Savona with
anthropomorphic decoration that gives a vivid sense of the region's ceramic tradition.
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PINACOTECA CIVICA OF SAVONA
fortress the Pinacoteca Civica of Savona
presents a broad perspective of art in Savona
from the fourteenth to the twentieth century.
The collection is organized on a chronological
basis that follows the development of the
schools represented. In the sections devoted to
painting we find some examples of the Tuscan
art of the fourteenth century, followed by
Ligurian and Lombard artists of the fifteenth.
Outstanding among these is the Crucifixion by
Donato de’ Bardi, the earliest example of a
painting on canvas in Italy. The works of other
Lombard artists, such as Vincenzo Foppa and his followers, round out the early collection.
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TREASURY OF THE SHRINE OF NOSTRA
The museum of the Treasury of the Shrine of
Nostra Signora della Misericordia is housed in
the Palazzetto del Duca, built in the vicinity of
the Shrine immediately after the miraculous
apparition. It was set up in 1959 by the Fine
Arts Service of Liguria and has recently
undergone a restoration that has made it more
functional. It contains extensive collections of
liturgical silverware and church vestments and
ornaments of various kinds, built up through
bequests and donations. Some of these are
extremely interesting, such as the Ecce Homo,
a polychrome wooden bust attributed to a sixteenth-century Ligurian master.
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COLLECTIONS OF THE PRIAMÀR -SAVONA
The civic museums of Savona are located in
the monumental complex of the Priamàr
fortress.
The ground floor of the Loggia del Castello
Nuovo houses the Museo Archeologico,
displaying finds that cover a span of time from
the Middle Bronze Age, the period of the
earliest frequentation of the Priamàr hill by the
Ligures Sabazi, to the nineteenth century. The
layout of the museum is a highly suggestive
one: its fusion of the exhibition space and the
archeological site allows visitors to follow the
age-old history of the hill in close contact with
the pottery, metal and stone artefacts displayed in their original setting.
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CIVIC ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM
The civic archeological museum of Finale
Ligure is housed in the convent of Santa
Caterina. It is divided into five rooms, with
collections ranging from the geology of the
Quaternary period up to the Middle Ages and
the Modern Age. In the first section we find a
reconstruction of the Finale region from the
geological viewpoint, showing the most
interesting rock formations and morphological
phenomena. This is followed by fossils and
examples of «Finale stone,» a type of
limestone dating from the Tertiary period.
After a review of the karst phenomena and
caves in the surrounding hills, the exhibition continues with prehistoric finds drawn from those caves.
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ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM
ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM “DON
CESARE QUEIROLO” - VADO LIGURE
In the Roman era Vada Sabatia, the old name
for the present-day town of Vado Ligure, was
of considerable importance, both politically as
the seat of a Municipium and economically, in
its role as a trade emporium.
An echo of the splendor of Roman times still
reverberates through the rooms of the
Archeological Museum dedicated to Don
Cesare Queirolo, the curious figure of a priest-cum-
archeologist who carried out a great deal
of research in the Vado area in the second half
of the nineteenth century, gathering the inscriptions, coins and household finds that fill the museum today.
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CIVICA PINACOTECA
CIVICA PINACOTECA DI VILLA
GROPPALLO - VADO LIGURE
In 1982 the commune of Vado Ligure
inaugurated a cultural center in the eighteenth-century
residence of the De Mari family,
which includes a library and an art gallery.
The latter is divided into several different
sections: one of these is devoted to the works
of sculpture and painting that won the
competition for artists called the «Premio
Vado,» which was held by the commune for
the first time in 1951, at the urging of the
Provincial Guild of Painters and Sculptors.
Another section houses a selection of the family's own art collection, on permanent display.
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NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF
ALASSIO
The Museo di Scienze Naturali «Don Bosco»
in Alassio is split up into a large number of
sections. The zoological one, with its butterfly
collection, is the most fascinating: here the
visitor can admire the golden eagle, various
species of duck, stork, albatross and humming
bird and a marvelous specimen of the quetzal
in its rich ornithological collection. The
icthyological section presents examples of the
gulf’s most significant marine life, while a
wide range of local medicinal herbs can be
seen in the botanical section. A geological room rounds out the visit with minerals and fossils from the surrounding mountains.
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THE MUSEUMS OF ALBENGA
Visit the museums of Albenga to discover the
origins of the Ligurian civilization. The Civico
Museo Ingauno also gives you the opportunity
to admire the Palazzo Vecchio del Comune,
with its loggia decorated with a large fifteenth-century
fresco of the Crucifixion in which
Roman, medieval and Byzantine marble
carvings and a mosaic floor from the first
century AD are on display. The Sala dei
Consoli, with its massive frescoed groin vault,
houses epigraphs and sculptures from the
ancient Roman town of Albingaunum, while
the large and austere reception room on the
second floor is given over to medieval finds from the cathedral district.
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MUSEUM OF THE TOWER CLOCK
MUSEUM OF THE TOWER CLOCK
«G.B. BERGALLO» (TOVO SAN
GIACOMO)-
The Museum of the Tower Clock is housed in
the former Town Hall of Tovo San Giacomo,
in the ward of Bardino Nuovo. The museum
contains examples of clocks produced by the
Fabbrica Artigiana Bergallo, run by a family of
clockmakers since 1860, and sets out to
preserve and display not only complete clocks
but also their components, such as
mechanisms, wheels and hands. The majority
of the clocks made by the Bergallo family can
still be seen on the fronts of town halls and
noble houses and on the bell towers of churches across Liguria.
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MUSEUM OF THE OLIVE
MUSEUM OF THE OLIVE AND OF
PEASANT CULTURE - ARNASCO -
The Museum of the Olive and of Peasant
Culture houses documents dating from the
seventeenth century testifying to the presence
of the prized Pignola variety of olive in the
Arnasco region. Since time immemorial the
local population, employed chiefly in
agriculture, has made it the center of their
rural activities. Within a short space of time, in
fact, the cultivation of olives became so vital
and important that it constituted the area’s
principal resource.
The «Arnasca,» an olive with the savor of
the mountain terraces, takes pride of place in the displays.
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