Top 10 Museums in Bergamo, Lombardy

Vittorio Bellini founded Galleria Michelangelo in Bergamo, Italy, in 1967. The gallery displays paintings and sculptures moving from ancient to modern art (14th - 20th centuries) Italian and International artists, with special emphasis on French and other nationalities Post-Impressionist artists such as Maurice Denis, Jacques-Emile Blanche, Gustave Courbet, Suzanne Valadon, Maurice Utrillo, Emile Bernard, Emile-Othon Friesz, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Abraham Mintchine, Andre Lanskoy… During these years the gallery built up a great and varying inventory offering collectors a wide range of subjects such as religious, still life, portrait, abstract, landscape and other. The gallery has organized a lot of personal and collective exhibitions. For the most important of these, catalogues and volumes have been published. After the passing of Vittorio Bellini and many years of working together, the gallery has been managed by his daughter Raffaella Bellini.

The picture gallery of the Accademia Carrara, founded in 1796 by Giacomo Carrara, is considered to be the fruit of Italian collecting and one of the finest European art museum. Over six hundred artworks are on display in the museum, arranged in 28 rooms over two floors. They include masterpieces by Pisanello, Mantegna, Bellini, Botticelli, Raphael, Titian, Lotto, Moroni and other leading Italian painters, offering a journey through five centuries of Italian art history, from the beginning of the fifteenth to the end of the nineteenth century.

The GAMeC is Bergamo’s modern and contemporary art gallery, a multifaceted location offering spaces for temporary exhibitions, experimental projects dedicated to the collections, and mediation, integration and teaching activities for various types of visitors. A visual culture workshop, a place for exploration, experimentation and sharing of the languages of modernity, in continual dialogue with the demands of our times. Inaugurated in 1991 by Bergamo Municipal Authority, the museum has been run since 2000 by the Associazione per la Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo. A virtuous model of shared public–private management, the GAMeC is found in the former Dimesse and Servite convent, a fifteenth-century building restored at the end of the 1990s by Vittorio Gregotti, and located in venerable Piazza Carrara, the beating heart of the Bergamo museum complex, also home to the Accademia Carrara art gallery and the school of art.