Museo della Città, Rimini

The Museo della Città is the civic museum located in the former Jesuit convent on Via Luigi Tonini #1 of the city of Rimini, in the region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy. It rises adjacent to Chiesa del Suffragio, and a modern structure (Complesso Archeologico della Domus del Chirurgo in piazza Ferrari) built to enclose the ruins of an ancient Roman Domus, or house.

City Museum of Rimini
LocationRimini, Italy Edit this at Wikidata
Coordinates44°03′45″N 12°34′01″E / 44.0626144°N 12.5669794°E / 44.0626144; 12.5669794
Typearchaeology museum
art museum
historic house museum
museum
natural history museum
ethnographic museum
museum of a public entity Edit this on Wikidata
Collection size2,500 item, 2,500 item Edit this on Wikidata
Area20,000 m2 (220,000 sq ft)
Visitors18,808 (2020),[1] 125,187 (2019),[2] 155,281 (2018),[3] 21,303 (2021),[4] 38,285 (2022)[5]
Websitewww.museicomunalirimini.it/it/musei/museo-della-citta-luigi-tonini
Museo della Città, Rimini is located in Italy
Museo della Città, Rimini
Location of Museo della Città, Rimini

History

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The museum is mainly located in the building, designed by Alfonso Torreggiani as the Seminary and Convent of the Jesuits. Construction took place from 1746 to 1755. After the suppression of the order, the site was transferred to the Dominicans and then in 1797 became a civic hospital. The structure was heavily damaged by the bombardment during the second world war. The hospital was closed in 1977. Since 1990, it has become the Civic museum, designed by Pier Luigi Foschi, and dedicated to Luigi Tonini, who founded the first civic museum in Rimini.

Collections

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The courtyard of the cloister houses a Roman Lapidarium, dedicated to Professor Giancarlo Susini, initially curated in 1981, and displaying inscriptions from the 1st to 4th-centuries. In 2015, the museum garden was dedicated to the archeologist Khaled al–Asaad, who was murdered at the site of Palmyra in Syria. The basement has another archeologic display including instruments from the nearby Domus del Chirurgo and mosaics discovered in the Palazzo Diotallevi.

The first floor of the museum has a permanent display of works by the local fashion illustrator René Gruau and a display of the Libro dei sogni (Book of Dreams) by Federico Fellini. Spanning the first and main floor is located the Pinacoteca or painting gallery of Rimini, containing works from the 11th to the 20th centuries, including work a large Renaissance fresco of The Last Judgement attributed to Giovanni da Rimini and a Last Supper attributed to Benedetto Coda. Many of the paintings belong to the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Rimini. Among the collection are:

The nearby archeology museum Domus del Chirurgo was inaugurated in 2007. During work in the Piazza Ferrari, ruins of a second century CE house were uncovered with remains of mosaics and frescoes. Included in the findings were over 150 ancient Roman surgical instruments. The glass structure allows visitors to view continuing excavations.[6]

References

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  1. ^ ISTAT 2020 survey on museums and similar institutions. 2022 https://www.istat.it/it/archivio/167566. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ^ ISTAT 2019 survey on museums and similar institutions. 2021 https://www.istat.it/it/archivio/167566. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ^ ISTAT 2018 survey on museums and similar institutions. 2020 https://www.istat.it/it/archivio/167566. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ^ ISTAT 2021 survey on museums and similar institutions. 2023 https://www.istat.it/it/archivio/167566. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ^ ISTAT 2022 survey on museums and similar institutions. 2024 https://www.istat.it/it/archivio/167566. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ^ Rimini Tourism office, entry on museum.