Museums and galleries
Ferrara
Synagogues
The Jews’ presence in Ferrara dates back at least until the 12th Century and thanks to the religious tolerance of the Este family the community grew, welcoming refugee groups of Ashkenazi from the German Empire territories and later, Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain and Portugal.
Giovanni Boldini Museum
TEMPORARILY CLOSED. Re-opening after restoration. The Boldini Museum is dedicated to the Ferrarese painter who lived between 1842 and 1931.
Pavilion of Contemporary Art
Open only for temporary exhibitions. CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC BECAUSE OF RESTORATION WORKS.
Museum of Casa Romei
Giovanni Romei became administrator to the lords of Ferrara and married the princess Polissena d’Este. On the Via di San Francesco he had a house built that showed his high ranking
Museum of rural life
The Museum of rural life was created through the cooperation of Mr. Guido Scaramagli and the Municipality of Ferrara
Museum of Natural History
The Museum will reopen to the public from 4th October 2022
National Picture Gallery
Created in 1836, the Picture Gallery was the first public collection of Ferrarese paintings, put together to bring a halt to the dispersion of local artistic patrimony by setting up a modern museum in which to conserve and promote Ferrara's art and culture
Cathedral Museum
The Cathedral Museum, sited in the ex church of San Romano, was created through a join initiative between the Cathedral Chapter and the Municipality of Ferrara with the aim of documenting the history of the most important sacred temple of Este spirituality
Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery
The Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery houses important, prestigious temporary exhibitions organised in collaboration with Ferrara Arte,...
MEIS Museo Nazionale dell'Ebraismo Italiano e della Shoah
At the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah are open the permanent exhibitions: "1938: HUMANITY DENIED" by Giovanni Grasso and Paco Lanciano and "Jews, an Italian history" to discover the history of Jews in Italy from the era of ancient Rome to the Renaissance.
National Archaeological Museum
The museum, housed in the Palazzo Costabili, exhibits the findings of the Etruscan city of Spina which flourished from the 6th to the 3rd century B.C. and survived until the first centuries A.D.
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art 'Filippo De Pisis'
TEMPORARILY CLOSED. Re-opening after restoration. Exposition begins with two works by Mario Sironi: Justice and Mural Composition.
Museo del Risorgimento e della Resistenza
The Museum is closed to the public until further notice.
Museo dell'Ottocento
TEMPORARILY CLOSED. Re-opening after restoration. The Museum of the Ottocento begins with three rooms chiefly dedicated to religious subjects (Giovanni Pagliarini Madonna and Child) and historical ones (Gaetano Turchi Torquato Tasso in Sant’Anna).
Lapidary Museum
The Lapidary Museum, housed in the ex-church of Santa Libera, has a rich collection of Roman works in marble from the province of Ferrara
Museum of Palazzo Schifanoia
Extraordinary vestige of the splendour of the Renaissance period, Palazzo Schifanoia is the symbol of Este Ferrara. New itinerary is open to visitors (divided over 1400 square meters, 21 rooms, about 250 works of art), new layout, new lights and new museographic concept, developed with the aim of reconnecting Ferrara with one of the most important testimonies of its history
Argenta
Valli di Argenta Museum
The Casino di Campotto is a rural building situated at the entrance to the Oasis in via Cardinala.
Water scooping plant of Saiarino and Museum of Land Reclamation
The Museo della Bonifica, situated at the Saiarino Pumping Station is an exemple of an industrial archaeology museum, where you can admire the complex mechanical system of land reclamation of the early 1900s.
Civic Museum
The Civic Museum of Argenta was opened in 1973 in the church of San Domenico
Bondeno
Museo Civico Archeologico "G. Ferraresi"
The museum documents the rich history of Bondeno's territory.
