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Museo Davia Bargellini

Civic museum of applied arts in the seventeenth-century Palazzo Davia Bargellini, arranged as an eighteenth-century Bolognese apartment, with the Davia Bargellini picture collection.

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About the museum

The museum is housed in the palazzo built by Camillo Bargellini between 1638 and 1658 to a design by the architect Bartolomeo Provaglia, who gave up the traditional portico in order to emphasise the mass of the building. The portal is flanked by two stone telamons by Gabriele Brunelli and his pupil Francesco Agnesini; around 1730 Vincenzo Bargellini had the staircase built, designed by Carlo Francesco Dotti.

The museum was founded at the beginning of the 1920s on the initiative of Francesco Malaguzzi Valeri, then superintendent of galleries, and it largely keeps its original arrangement, conceived as a Bolognese apartment of the eighteenth century, with furniture, furnishings and rare objects distributed over seven rooms.

The collections include the Davia Bargellini picture collection, with works by Vitale da Bologna, Simone dei Crocefissi, Innocenzo da Imola and Jacopo di Paolo, and a collection of applied arts that includes a puppet theatre and a miniature reproduction of an eighteenth-century private house.

Highlights

Seventeenth-century palazzo with telamon portal and eighteenth-century staircase
Arrangement as an eighteenth-century Bolognese apartment
Davia Bargellini picture collection with works by Vitale da Bologna and Simone dei Crocefissi
Puppet theatre
Miniature reproduction of an eighteenth-century private house

Permanent exhibition

Appartamento settecentesco e quadreria Davia Bargellini – Seven rooms with furniture and applied-arts objects in an eighteenth-century apartment setting, and the picture collection with paintings by Vitale da Bologna, Simone dei Crocefissi and other masters.

Operated by: Comune di Bologna
Visitors per year: approx. 30,105