Description
The Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art is Genoa's museum of 20th-century and present-day art: a neoclassical villa set in a park on the Carignano hill, which the Croce family donated to the city in 1951 so that it would become a museum.
The collection is on the third floor, and it grew out of the Cernuschi Ghiringhelli collection: Italian abstract art from the 1930s onward, with works by Lucio Fontana, Osvaldo Licini, Mario Radice and Mauro Reggiani, alongside younger artists such as Adrian Paci and Ben Vautier. The second floor is devoted to temporary exhibitions.
The ground floor keeps its rooms painted in tempera in the eclectic taste of the late 19th century, along with a rich contemporary art library open to the public. The exhibitions range from painting to design, from video to photography, with forays into music, film and theater.
The collection is on the third floor, and it grew out of the Cernuschi Ghiringhelli collection: Italian abstract art from the 1930s onward, with works by Lucio Fontana, Osvaldo Licini, Mario Radice and Mauro Reggiani, alongside younger artists such as Adrian Paci and Ben Vautier. The second floor is devoted to temporary exhibitions.
The ground floor keeps its rooms painted in tempera in the eclectic taste of the late 19th century, along with a rich contemporary art library open to the public. The exhibitions range from painting to design, from video to photography, with forays into music, film and theater.