5 Museums in Nervi That You Shouldn't Miss

Since 1993, the museum is located in Nervi, in the 18th-century Villa Grimaldi Fassio, acquired by the Municipality of Genoa in 1979. The important collections of 19th-20th-century art of the Frugone brothers include paintings, sculptures and drawings by Italian and foreign artists from the second half of the 19th and early-20th century. Among others, Bistolfi, Fontanesi, Mancini, Messina, Segantini, Signorini, Boldini, Rubino, Milesi, Tito, Michetti and Sorolla y Bastida.

First based on the collection of the Prince Oddone of Savoy and subsequent bequeaths and purchases, the Gallery is housed in the 16th-century Villa Saluzzo in Nervi, with over 2,500 pieces, including paintings, sculptures, drawings and engravings from the beginning of the 19th century up to the present day. Many artists are featured, including Nicolò Barabino, Ernesto Rayper, Alfredo D’Andrade, Vincenzo Cabianca, Plinio Nomellini, Rubaldo Merello, Fortunato Depero, Felice Casorati, Filippo De Pisis, Francesco Messina, Eugenio Baroni, Arturo Martini, Renato Guttuso, Mario Mafai, Corrado Cagli.

In the splendid setting of the park overlooking the cliffs of Nervi, the halls of a noble residence of the early 20th century host collections of paintings and drawings, furniture, antique clocks, ceramics, silverware and nativity figurines of the 18th-19th centuries. Of particular interest are the canvas by Magnasco.

With a special focus on decorative arts and propaganda between 1880-1945, the Wolfsonian Museum starts from the taste for the exotic, which was popular in late 19th-century Italy, to then reveal the main linguistic and expressive currents of the first half of the 20th century, from Art Nouveau to Art Deco and Rationalism. The cultural complexity of the time is shown by the extraordinary variety of pieces (paintings, sculptures, furniture, decorative artworks, everyday objects and industrial designs).