Museo della Città (City Museum), Rimini

Museo della Città (City Museum), Rimini

The City Museum of Rimini is housed in the old Jesuit Convent next to the Church of the Suffragio and the House of the Surgeon archeological site in Ferrari Square. The Seminary and Jesuit Convent, designed by architect Alfonso Torreggiani, were built between 1746- 1755.

In 1797 the building became a civic hospital, which closed in 1977. In 1990 it became the Civic Museum. It was redesigned by architect Pier Luigi Foschi and dedicated to Luigi Tonini, a historian, bibliographer, and
founder of the first civic museum of Rimini. The cloister's courtyard has a Roman Lapidarium of fragments from the 1st to 4th centuries.

The museum garden is dedicated to a Syrian archeologist Khaled al-Assad murdered in Syria. The surgical instruments found in the Surgeon's House next door are kept in the basement. The first floor shows the works of fashion illustrator Rene Grau. There is also a display of Federico Fellini's Book of Dreams.

The gallery holds works dating from the 11th to the 20th centuries, including the Renaissance fresco of Giovanni da Rimini's Last Judgement. The fresco is also exhibited at the Palaces of Art Rimini in Cavour Square. Many paintings are from the Rimini Savings Bank Foundation (Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Rimini). More than fifty pieces are in this collection.

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Sight Name: Museo della Città (City Museum)
Sight Location: Rimini, Italy (See walking tours in Rimini)
Sight Type: Museum/Gallery
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