Museo della Città, Rimini (must see)

The Rimini City Museum was founded in 1990 and has its headquarters in the eighteenth-century building that used to serve as a Jesuit college and a hospital. The museum currently consists of over 40 rooms with thematic exhibitions. On the ground floor you can visit the Archeological Section, dedicated to Imperial Rimini. Walk up the historic eighteenth century staircase and enter the gallery that displays works of art and artifacts that follow a chronological path from the eleventh to the twentieth century. Here you can see masterpieces of the fourteenth century Rimini School along with Renaissance frescoes and paintings by local artists. Downstairs you can also see an exhibition dedicated to Rene Gruau, a well-known figure in the history of fashion design.