Museo Miniscalchi Erizzo (Miniscalchi Erizzo Museum), Verona

The Museo Miniscalchi Erizzo museum is located in a fifteenth century palace on the Via San Mammaso. The 15 room building contains furnishings, bronze, glassware, ceramics, coins, weapons, armor, and artwork from the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries and the Etruscan and Roman periods.

Visitors will enjoy the library, chapel, paintings, and antique furniture that belonged to the Miniscalchi clan, an important Veronese family. Other treats you will enjoy are a wooden ceiling from the fifteenth century, a racing sled from the 1200s, and paintings and busts located along the Great Staircase.

Along with preserving the museum’s works and loaning materials to other organizations, the gallery also conducts guided tours for students and visitors. In addition, exhibitions are conducted on a regular basis.

Some of the more memorable works presented at exhibitions include the Treasures of the Italian Artistic Foundations, the American Pop Art the Sixties, the Hebrew Antiques from the Verona Synagogue, the Historical Glassware by Ercole Barovier, the Ancient Art Fabrics, and Giorgio Morandi Fifty Works of the Magnani Rocca Foundation. The museum is open 11 am to 1 pm and 3:30 pm to 7 pm on Monday through Friday.