CIVIC ART GALLERY OF PALAZZO VOLPI

A visit to Palazzo Volpi is the ideal starting point to get to know the artistic reality of the city and the Como area: at the end of the 1980s, the Palazzo represented the ideal outlet for the expansion of the civic museums, and significant portions of the art collections, consisting of paintings and sculptures from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, originally exhibited or stored in the Palazzo Giovio and Palazzo Olginati warehouses, were gradually transferred there. The new premises were inaugurated in 1989 with the staging of three exhibitions dedicated to 14th-century painting in Como, the artistic production of the 17th-century Como area, and the 20th-century group of Como Abstractionists. In 1992, the installation of sliding racks in the storage rooms enabled the transfer of the rest of the picture gallery from Palazzo Giovio. Over the following years, the rooms of the other sections were gradually set up; today the picture gallery consists of the Medieval Section, the Renaissance Section, the Picture Gallery and the 20th century.