It is variously said that Italy owns about 40 per cent or more of the whole world’s artistic heritage. This may be true, even though such an estimate is enormously difficult to do on precise figures, not existing scientifically catalogued data about art and art relevance.
But one cannot deny Italy has some of the most famous museums in the world, especially as regards ancient and modern art. On the side of the contemporary, Italy is rapidly catching up with the most avant-garde countries and its museums of modern art are growing from year to year and are certainly already competitive on level of interest and works exposed, also thanks to private foundations generously providing funds.
The most famous places to visit in Italy as museums have the remarkable characteristic of being works of art themselves, like the Uffizi in Florence, the very first modern museum in the world, set up to host the collections of the Medici family in the XVI century. And the Pompeii and Herculaneum excavations, a travel through time in genuine Roman cities dug out of the earth and brought back to life: not only a museum but a whole immersion in ancient life.
And what about the collections in Venice (Galleries of the Academy of Art, St Mark’s Basilica), Milan (Castle Sforzesco, Picture Gallery of Brera), Turin (Royal Palaces of the House of Savoy), and the innumerable in Rome and Naples? Just pick your choice among the Italian museums of art, and you can be sure you will not be disappointed.
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