Museo Giannettino Luxoro

About the museum

Villa Luxoro, set in the greenery of the last stretch of the Nervi parks, in the Capolungo area, was built in 1903 to a design by Pietro Luxoro and was conceived from the outset as a house museum. The architect drew inspiration from the Genoese villas of the Renaissance and of the 17th and 18th centuries, as shown by the corner loggia and the painted decorations of the façades, and reused numerous 18th-century tiles inside and outside.

The brothers Giuseppe (a doctor), Pietro (an engineer and lecturer at the Accademia Ligustica) and Matteo Luxoro, nephews of the painter Tammar Luxoro, were passionate collectors. They decided to donate the villa and all their works of art to the Comune of Genoa, so that it would become a public museum named after Giannettino, Giuseppe's only son, who died young during the First World War. The property passed to the Comune in 1945, and the house museum has been open to visitors since 1951.

The collections mainly concern the Ligurian decorative arts of the 17th and 18th centuries: paintings, furniture, ceramics, silverware, mirrors, carved frames and antique textiles. Particularly important are the collection of 17th- and 18th-century nativity figures and the collection of antique clocks and pendulum clocks, with rare night clocks and the monumental models by the Roman workshop of the Campani. The picture gallery includes paintings by Alessandro Magnasco and portraits of the 18th-century Genoese school. The various spaces have kept their original purpose, to give the impression of being guests of a 19th-century collector. After its closure in 2016, the villa partly reopened on 1 November 2024.

Highlights

• House museum of 1903 in the Nervi parks
• Collection of 17th- and 18th-century nativity figures
• Antique clocks and pendulum clocks, with the models of the Campani
• Paintings by Alessandro Magnasco and portraits of the Genoese school
• Ligurian decorative arts of the 17th and 18th centuries

Permanent exhibition

• Collezioni della casa-museo – Ligurian decorative arts of the 17th and 18th centuries, nativity figures, antique clocks, paintings by Magnasco and Genoese portraits, in rooms that keep the look of a lived-in house.

Founded

1951

Operated by

Comune di Genova

Admission & discounts

Accessibility

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Kids & families

• Family tours & workshops

The Musei di Genova also offer educational services for the Luxoro museum.

Getting there & parking

The villa is in the Nervi parks, in the Capolungo area, and is one of the museums of the Musei di Nervi network.

Amenities & dining

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